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VOLUME 56 NUMBER 4 SUMMER 1979

A Stranger in Paradise 2

I'll Take Manhattan! Lucy Boswell '72 4

Paradise on a Shoestring! Frances T. Slack '76 6

The Way to Heaven! Nancy Rash Fabbri and 7 Nina Rutenburg '79

Quartet Music in the Country! Charles R. Shack ford 10

The College: The Jungle Blackboard! Linda Noll Demas '78 and 12 Jo Levitt Vanderkloot '62

The Biggest Reunion Ever 14 Letters 20 Class Notes 21

Photographs: Page I, John S. Bates. Cover, pages 3-4, Vivian Segall '73. Pages 5-6, Lucy Boswell '72. Pages 11 and 27, Ted Hendrickson. Pages 12-13, Katie Vanderkloot. Pages 14-19, 22 and 24, Geoffrey Day '80. Note to our readers: For several years, the summer issue of the Alumni Magazine has been a newspaper covering just reunion and class notes. As an experiment, we're bringing out a summer magazine-s-for the same price as the old tabloid. Let us know how you like the new format. The regular glossy magazine will return in the fall.

EDITORIAL BOARD: Vivian Segall '73 Editor (I5A Latham Lane, EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIA nON: Britt' Noank, CT 06340) / Gertrude E. Noyes '25 / Sarah Hargrove Schein McNeruar '67 President / Michael J. Farrar '73 Vice Harris '57 / Wayne Swanson / Marilyn Ellman Frankel '64 / Marion President / Sally Lane Braman '54 Secretary / Cynthia Caravatt vibert Clark '24 Class Notes Editor / Holden '74 Treasurer Elizabeth Damerel Gongaware '26 Assistant Editor / Britta Schein McNemar '67 and Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 ex officio Directors-at-Large: Suzanne Krim Greene '57, Terry Munger '50, Gwendolyn Rendall Cross '62, Nancy L Close '72 / Alumni The Connecticut College Alumni Magazine (USPS 129-l4O). Trustees: Joann Walton Leavenworth '56, Jane Smith Moody '~9, Joan Official publication of the Connecticut College Alumni Association. Jacobson Kronick '46 / Chairman of Alumni Giving: Helene Zimmer All publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted only by Loew '57 / Chairman of Nominating Committee: Ellen Lougee permission of the editor. Published by the Connecticut College Simmons '69 / Chairman of Finance Committee: Sally Lane , Alumni Association at Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, Braman '54 / Chairman of Classes Committee: Terry Munger 50.1 New London, CT four times a year in Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. Chairman of Programs Committee: Nancy L Close '72 / Execulive Second-class postage pending at New London, CT 06320 Director: Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 / Young Alumni Send Form 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, Representative: Ken Crerar'77 / Legal Advisor: Jay B. Levin '73 New London, CT 06320 CASE member

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• The awesome 104-foot schooner Shenandoah is nudged down the Mystic River past Noank. In the foreground is the Winsome, a replica of a Noank fishing sloop. Neither vessel is equipped with motor power . .. , I JI It Ii, l d~

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Our private visions of Paradise are not just frivolous dreams; they color the way we see the world. The poet W. H. Auden urged literary critics to divulge their notions of Paradise so readers could "judge their judgments," Auden revealed his preferences in everything from climate (British) and domestic architecture (18th century British and American Colonial) to public statues (confined to famous defunct chefs). You'll be able to judge the judgments of alumni who believe Paradise is located in the village of Noank, Connecticut; or enjoyed by the eccentric citizens of Manhattan Island; or available at a discount in San Francisco. An art history professor and an alumna explain how the art and architecture of the Orsanmichele tabernacle helped 14th century Florentines find their way to Heaven. And an article by the late Charles R, Shackford describes the inspiration he took from music and its pastoral associations.

,I • a precise as any green expressway sign, and far more satisfying. Walking through this town, past its eccentric mix of 18th and A stranger in Paradise 19th century houses (each with a dog or cat on the front step), greeting neighbors and passersby, and intercepting the Day Set at the mouth of the Mystic River and from the paper boy, I have occasionally had the impression of ascending into studded with Greek revival houses, Noank Heaven-or at the very least, into another, offers spectacular views and transports us to more serene, century. If you'd like to visit, only two roads a more serene century. connect Noank with the outside world. The lesser used road runs past the public beach near Groton Long Point. The main entrance is over a railroad bridge, under- It all began about a year ago when I was nal act. ] was instantly forgiven but con- neath which Amtrak trains rumble sooth- painting the small red oceanside cottage tinued to apologize. "It's all right," Betty ingly as they slow for the curve into My- that, by some miracle, I was about to said, radiating the calm reassurance of stic. Like the steeple of the Baptist move into. The first time I saw it, I Billie Burke in The Wizard of Oz. "We Church, the passing trains make you feel realized Noank was an extraordinarily are here to help you." at home. "Part of the reason Noank is so pretty, if not idyllic place. Soon, however, What a revelation to learn that neigh- idyllic," one of my guests observed, "is evidence began to accumulate that Noank borliness hasn't gone the way of high- that you can imagine the railroad bridge was more than just a picturesque, isolated button shoes and Hula-hoops. My cottage is really a drawbridge that comes up at fishing village-it was, in reality, Para- sits, like a two-storey red fireplug, amid night, making you perfectly secure." dise. four families' backyards, so I have a gen- Just around the corner from the rail- As I was painting, an enormously loud erous supply of neighbors. Noank offers road bridge is Pete's Mobil, another solid horn went off, followed by vigorous hell- spectacular views-of Fisher's Island, the piece of evidence that Noank is not of ringing. "A disaster at sea!" I thought, Mystic River, Groton Long Point and the this world. Pete Roarty is a handsome, and raced outside expecting to see people Sound-making it sensible for houses to dark-haired man who usually works on running towards shore to offer aid. What] huddle near the water's edge. Twenty feet cars while his father-who remembers not did see was a large white steam-powered from my door, Harriet Bates, a retired only my name but also my license plate vessel that would have looked quite at second-grade teacher, and her husband, number for the charge slip-pumps gas home on the Mississippi with Paul Robe- John, a retired principal, put in a full day and performs exotic amenities like clean- son aboard singing Old Man River. in their voluptuous 75-foot by 35-foot ing windshields, checking under the hood Emanating from this fugitive Delta Queen flower and vegetable garden. The Bates and chatting. He does these things in a (which was filled with tourists) were the are a serene contrast to the Robinsons, very courtly way, and for some reason!s sounds of Dixieland jazz. The source of who thunder through the yard shoulder- called "Speed" although his real name is the bell-ringing proved to be my neighbor, ing masts and one-person sailboats, and Forrest. All of these rustic delights are, Will Anderson, who was standing outside to a second family of Andersons, whose however, just frosting on the cake. You his living room window, tolling a large house seems to excrete baseball, soccer see, Pete is everyone's impossible dream: bell and waving his free arm like some and lacrosse equipment. an honest mechanic. Maybe you thought jovial Ahab. I learned that Will performs Only about 400 people live in the "vil- there wasn't a mechanic alive who would this quaint ritual every night during the lage" of Noank, which is cut off by the replace just the one bad spark plug in your spring, summer and fall after Mystic Sea- main railroad tracks between Boston and car-but he is alive, he knows what he's port's Sabino-the last coal-fired pas- New York. It's a small place, small doing and it only cost two dollars. senger-carrying vessel in the United enough for all daily errands to be accom- Despite all of its obvious charms, peo- States-blares its horn in greeting. I was plished on foot. The basic necessities are ple do sometimes leave Noank. The Mat stunned. This was better than, say, having available at the Universal food store (with nard family, for example, built a boat m unicorns appear in the garden; this was its hand-operated wooden check-out coun- their front yard and sailed right out of like having unicorns in the garden every ter), the Baptist Church's Corner Closet town. They did return, five years later, night. second-hand shop, the Universal liquor after sailing all the way around the world. Will, who is married to Elizabeth store (which shares a building with the Last fall, the Noank Historical Society (Betty) Byrne of the Connecticut College post office), a barber shop, and Carson's, sponsored the Maynards' slide and film class of '41, walked across the yard later which sells newspapers, has a tiny lunch and suggested, or insisted, that I borrow counter and dispenses balloons, ice cream Close to two dozen alumni live in Noank, their station wagon to move my furniture cones, baseballs, rabbits' feet and other including John and Jeanette Holmes to Noank. For the reader who protests items essential to the young. There are Beach '41, whose lovely Cape (opposite, that such instances of generosity are rare two tennis courts which become a skating top) is across Front Street from the Bates' but not extinct, I offer additional evi- rink in the winter, a basketball court and garden. Silting on her porch at 42 Church dence. In those carefree days before the a couple of places to buy local lobsters. Street is Joan Pierce 73 (lower left). A gas crisis, when such things were still pos- Priests from Groton hold one mass weekly human ecology major, Joan's an environ- sible, I returned the station wagon on a in Noank's modest and homey-looking mental planner for Groton. (Diane Hitch- Sunday evening with almost no gas in the Catholic Church. The Baptist Church, on cock 75 also lives in the house.) William Skulking over to the Andersons' tank. the other hand, is the biggest building in and Betty Byrne Anderson '41 have a house-which, like many others in town to~n. Brightly lit at night, its magnificent homey back porch (lower right) complete was built in the l840s-1 apologized for white steeple is visible for several miles. with fan. flower boxes and a bel/to greet what today would be considered a crimi- The steeple provides a sense of place as the Sabino.

2 - 3 In spite of being filled with Greek revival houses, Noank is hardly a museum. Set close together, the houses have a lived-in-occasionally ramshackle-air. Up until now, Noank has escaped. ~eing gentrified, so it's free of the meretncrcus, manicured look of places like Washing- ton's Georgetown. People of varying in- comes still make their homes here. Harsh salt air and a relaxed approach to residential upkeep ensure that dazzling paint jobs are only temporary. Noank wouldn't be a legitimate paradise without a few miracles. My neighbors Will and Betty Anderson, witnessed one 'in connection with their wood pile. Betty and Will had a cord of wo.od d~- livered-which is to say,dumped-m their yard. Betty returned from an erra~d .to discover the wood neatly stacked m Its customary spot between two .trees. N~ne of the neighbors would admit to having Andrew Halsey 77 and Sally Davies 78 live beside Ford's Lobsters on Riverview performed this chore. The investi~ation A venue where, Sally says, "the fisherman come to watch the sun set." ranged far and wide, but to no avail. No one owned up. Finally, someone recalled that the oil man-a visitor who usually presentation at the fire house across the scale and sure proportions subtly suggest brings sad tidings-had been in the neigh- street from Pete's. There were cookies, that balance and proportion are invalu- borhood. He was the culprit. In the time It and Hawaiian punch, and a report from able not only in building dignified houses, took for the tank to fill, the oil man, in an the Society's secretary, who happens to but in ordering our world. George inexplicable burst of physical pro~ess and be Louise Andersen '41, the Alumni As- Creeger, an expert on Connecticut archi- generosity, had stacked the enure cord. sociation's executive director. (Louise tecture, explains that we love to look at We're not sure, but we think he pulled the also arranges the flowers for the Baptist these houses because "they give us a drawbridge up when he left. Church each Sunday, works at the Corner sense of repose." - VS. 73 Closet, and serves on the Board of Chris- tian Education, so she's a familiar figure in Noank.) About 250 people-a remark- able turnout for a small town-squeezed into the fire house that night to hear about the Maynards' adventures. Noank's Me- morial Day parade had the same home- I'll take Manhattan spun quality. There wasn't much to it, but nearly everyone stood in the rain and New York City has something for watched. The Fitch High School Band, one bagpiper, a few veterans, the volun- every appetite, from Mostly teer firefighters, a couple of firetrucks Mozart to ginkgo nuts. and a single "f1oat"-a Ford Pinto covered with sodden Kleenex-wound through the village, then assembled at By Lucy Boswell '72 the cemetery (see cover) for speeches. Sitting on hard folding chairs in the fire house or watching a parade in the rain In Manhattan, you can do or be whatever ladle of that special brew reveals a num- clears the senses, like tasting a real you want-a shopping bag lady or a sex ber of distinctly different flavors. The tomato from the garden or watching Vic- goddess, a Bowery bum or a .Benedictine Culture Freak is one of the most prom- tor Laszlo lead the singing of the "Mar- monk-and nobody will care, or even inent. seillaise" in Casablanca. The much-loved notice. This freedom allows people to The Culture Freak. She lives on the architecture of 18th and 19th century live the loneliest or the warmest of exis- Upper West Side in a high-<:eiling~d New England offers the same access to tences, depending on their preferences apartment with small closets and big memory, the same evocation of our fun- and personalities. The infinite variety cockroaches. Her summers and winters damental human values. Noank's Greek that is Manhattan comes closer to Para- are marked merely by the presence. or revival houses-interspersed with a few dise than any city I have visited; here, absence of the Joffrey the Metropolttan earlier structures and many converted , k "If there's something for everyone, no matter Opera and Shakespeare in the Par . cottages-firmly connect us with the past. how eccentric he or she may be. it's Mostly Mozart, this must be summer; The architectural and aesthetic propor- All types of people coexist in Man- the Messiah certainly indicates Decem- tions of the houses seem uncannily right, hattan, each adding seasoning to the even to the unschooled eye. Their intimate ber ," she reasons. t Manhattan melting pot. A sip from the The Culture Freak belongs to the Me

4 Set, but certainly not the Jet Set. Her psyches of the roly-polies. And for the The more affluent Clothes Horse revels priorities are definitely Debussy before firming of their abundant flesh, there are in the rarified atmospheres of designer Dior, Picasso above Pucci. Her clothes health clubs, spas and figure salons to fit salons and Madison Avenue boutiques. are likely to be remnants of days gone by, almost any budget. On most nights, the well-to-do Clothes carefully selected from second-hand The Weight Watcher is fortunate also Horse is involved in a valiant effort to shops in SoHo or on Amsterdam Avenue, in the number of special diet restaurants raise those less fortunate from the depths and always artistically offbeat. throughout Manhattan. Since he is a of misery or poverty. This is usually done She's found her niche in New York, creature of habit, life-long patterns of in the following way: a hundred or so where thousands of her comrades in over-indulgence re-emerge intermit- Clothes Horses and their escorts gather culture converge evening after evening tently. A Weight Watcher observed together in one of Manhattan's most chic at one artistic happening or another. flagrante delicto (perhaps furtively savor- and expensive clubs, restaurants or The Epicure. The Epicure was born to ing sausages at the annual San Gennaro hotels, and air strong moral feelings and live in Manhattan, for he lives to eat and Festival in Little Italy, or quaffing choc- new gowns over Cornish game hen and drink. Manhattan's plentiful pastures olate chip cookies from one of the little pouille fousse. These functions serve as and watering holes offer him toothsome red cookie trucks that have materialized an important source of employment in choices no matter what his state of mind or recently on every other corner of midtown New York's garment and restaurant in- wallet. Should his assets be unlimited, he Manhattan to lure unsuspecting passers- dustries. is likely to be found downing eight by), will probably appear the next day in Other Miscellaneous Cults. There courses, from escargot to eclair, and sip- the Diet Gourmet or Weight Watchers are, of course, many other distinct bands ping selected vin blanc, rouge and liqueur Restaurant. Here he will repent with a of people who indulge themselves in the at anyone of Manhattan's numerous diet ice cream sundae (only half the very personal pleasures Manhattan af- restaurants de haute cuisine. calories of the real thing!) and thank his fords. The Hypochondriac, for instance, The food fancier has over a thousand lucky stars he has the good sense to live luxuriates in a dazzling array of hospitals, restaurants from which to choose in Man- in the most nurturing of cities. clinics and medical research institutions hattan. But many who fall into this cate- The Clothes Horse. For the Clothes where he can parade his most imaginative gory think New York a paradise not for Horse, Manhattan is the only conceivable and exotic symptoms. its restaurants, but for its abundant place to live in the United States, if not the The Sports Freak falls into two cate- markets, groceries and bakeries of every world. The Clothes Horse needn't be at gories, the Spectator and the Jock. The nationality and variety. The Epicure is the highest income level to feel a sense of Spectator, also known as a Dial Turner, likely to be standing outside an Italian peace after a shopping expedition. takes the greatest pleasure in hovering bakery in Little Italy gorging himself on Clothes Horses of moderate means are over his cable television set to monitor a pastry fresh from the ovens, at an hour New York's equivalents of big-game minimum of three games in progress. The when everyone else in his apartment hunters. Their trophies are the Calvin Mets, the Nets, the Jets, the Cosmos, the building is asleep. He is easy to spot in Kleins or the Yves St. Laurents they've Islanders, the Rangers, the Knicks, the Chinatown-he's the only non-Oriental bagged at wholesale or below from manu- Giants and the Yankees fight a never- in the grocery store with a shopping cart facturers hidden in the deepest recesses ending battle for his attention. full of lotus root, ginkgo nuts, octopus and of Seventh Avenue. They are often seen The "Jock population has grown in re- fermented bean curd. in droves on Manhattan's Lower East cent years in leaps and bounds. The Run- The Weight Watcher. The Weight Side. There, if the price of a bargain is ner, a sub-eult, is always indentifiable by Watcher and the Epicure have much in still too high, they may be able to dicker his clothing, or the lack thereof. In a city common. In fact, they may well be one and with a shopkeeper for a few more dollars where sable and mink are likely to be the same. Both have extensive knowledge off. sported in July, the Runner stands out in and appreciation of the finer eateries in Manhattan. But the Weight Watcher makes at least an occasional effort to avoid the delectable but detrimental temptations of the Big Apple. The Weight Watcher in New York has at his disposal the most extensive support system for the losing of pounds to be found in any city in the world. Classes in weight control abound- Weight Watchers, Weigh of Life and Overeaters Anonymous are only three of the many organizations that service the

Lucy Boswell '72, a government major who wrote her senior paper on utopias, lives on the East Side of Manhattan and works in corporate communication and sales promotion for the Equitable Life Assurance Society" Before joining Equit- able, Lucy was editor of Medical Meetings magazine for four years. Opposite, for Weight Watchers, low-ealorie snacks ap- pease hunger pangs without guilt.

5 young hopefuls, with big plans. and little wherewithal. I'd spent the previous year, my first out of college, working?n a trade magazine in New York-a learning experience made especially pleasant because my boss was Lucy Boswell '72. But what I really wanted to do was read and write poetry all day. In San Francisco, I thought, I could survive in an unheated garret more safely and comfortably t?an in New York. I schemed to work part-time as a Kelly Girl and devote the rest of my hours to dallying with the muses. All the travel ads and calendar photos I'd seen back East depicting cheery trolley cars, "the crookedest street in the world," and sunset through the Golden Gate Bridge didn't prepare me. for the San Francisco skyline as I saw It for the first time from the window of my southbound Greyhound bus. Smaller than I'd imag- ined, partly wreathed in mist, San Fran- cisco viewed from the Golden Gate looks like a futuristic Baghdad, especially be- I. Cookie Coaches putter around Manhattan, tempting innocent passersby. cause it is shiningly, radiantly white. Inside city limits, the white light re- fracts into a rainbow. San Franciscans his scanty shorts and T-shirt. He is much a part of her existence. She is paint their houses an unusual mixtur~ of strangely drawn to bodies of water: the tantalized by the bountiful titles available fruity pastels, a popular color .combma- Central Park Reservoir, the East and the at low-priced revival houses, first-run tion being a banana, peach or lime back- Hudson Rivers are edged with Runners of theaters, museums and even SoHo loft~. gound with raspberry red lattice work a~d every description, in every season. Many Since darkness is habitual for her, she IS trim. Built on a cluster of hills, the city Runners. however, believe Manhattan's difficult to spot. In daylight, she often offers panoramic views from many differ- numbered streets and avenues to be the hides behind dark glasses. ent vantage points. ultimate environment for their sport. While it is generally believed that When this gets tiresome, one can al- These are the distance-conscious who "birds of a feather flock together," Man- ways take off for the ocean, the desert, rejoice in the ease with which they can hattan is a sanctuary for many, many the lake country, the wine valleys, Yose- tick off the miles as they run. different species. A constant migration mite National Park the redwoods or the The Film Buff is a fervently devoted from less hospitable territories bespeaks Sierra Mountains, of which are within Manhattanite. In fact, she is loathe to the ease with which each species feels at ;n a half day's drive or less from downto.wn. leave the island for more than a day at a home here. No matter how rare the bird, The hills and valleys of San Francisco time. Only here can she be sure to find the in Manhattan he'll find a comfortable necessary daily fix of celluloid that is so nesting spot among his own. are natural cradles for its many neighbor- hoods. The Mission district was my first neighborhood, not because of the colorful fruit and flower stands on the streets or the pifiatas hanging in the meat markets, but because it offered the cheapest rent around. Paradise on a shoestring Few tourists venture into the Mission except to pay homage to the Mission Glistening like a futuristic Baghdad, Dolores, the city's oldest landmark. It was built under the direction of Jesuits who San Francisco welcomes those with came to convert the natives. Underneath big plans but small budgets. the Mission Dolores (literally, the Mission of Sadness) are the remains of hundreds of Indians who died from malaria while By Frances 1. Slack '76 building the mission on what was a pesti- lential swamp. The Jesuits and other early Spanish founders are buried beneath willow trees and elegantly carved head- San Francisco is the most written about, But the San Francisco I know best can't stones in a shady cemetery beside the sung about, romanticized city in America. be found in any current guidebooks; offi- church. "Everybody's second home," it crowned cially it went out of date a long time ago, Today, the Mission district is still pr~- the pioneers' westward quest. Having because it is the San Francisco on Less dominantly Catholic and very Latin. It IS lived in San Francisco for two years, I'm Than Five Dollars a Day. also the one district of the city where sex familiar with its many beloved attractions. I arrived in San Francisco, like so many roles have remained fixed. The image for

6 men is mucho macho-the fashion is silk are the Free Boxes. People leave clothes Up the block from us in the Haight is a shirts, bared chests and gold medallions. (and sometimes books and household big, freshly painted Victorian inhabited by The men hang out along 24th Street, and items) they don't need in boxes out on a religious group whose members wear as I'd walk about doing errands they'd call the street for anyone to recycle. Of only white. It might be a Moslem group, out to me. The women, usually with ba- course, it's a good idea to wash the gar- although the devotees are all Caucasion. bies clinging to them, stayed in the back- ments before wearing them. But I have The women wear white dresses, white ground as much as possible. found one hat and a couple of sweaters stockings, white nurse shoes, and the San Francisco is acclaimed for its col- that never fail to bring me compliments men wear white drawstring pants, white lection of fine restaurants. A place that I and an admiring "Oh, where did you find Nehru jackets and white tie shoes. Both could afford, which soon became my fa- that!" men and women wear white turbans with vorite, was La Fruteria, a delicatessen San Francisco is, of course, home for a no hair showing underneath. offering milk shakes and sandwiches, large and well-publicized homosexual Also up the block is the Pyramid Book- Cuban style. Behind the counter at La community. Naturally, there aren't many store, a good spot to sample the mishmash Fruteria hang a color portrait of John and effeminate males in the Mission because of religions, therapies and expensive ad- Robert Kennedy, a big wedding picture they'd probably be molested by teenage vice that flourishes here. Great religious of the owners, Rosa and Francisco and a vigilantes. But many homosexuals are texts are shelved next to Rolting manuals, plastic American flag embossed with the living and running businesses in the healthfood cookbooks, Eckankar hand- words "God Bless Our Country." Another Haight, which is the neighborhood I live books and do-it-yourself astrology kits. prized possession is a poster-size photo- in now. The Wall Street Journal and other The bookstore also has a hollow wooden graph of Francisco with Robert Mitchum, national publications have reported cor- replica of a pyramid, with one side hinged taken when Francisco played a bit part in rectly that the Haight has made a come- to serve as a door. Sitting inside the pyra- South of the Border. Suspended from back. A sure sign that a neighborhood's mid is supposed to channel your energies. wires attached to the ceiling are a yellow attractiveness, livability, safety and cost I sat inside it once. With the door closed, plastic horse missing a hind leg, a plastic will increase is when gays move into it. it's very dark in there. Santa Claus, a shirtless GI Joe doll and In my apartment house-a two-storey The proprietor of the store is a pleasant, many other mysterious-looking toys. A yellow Victorian divided into four flats- nervous fellow who is thin, extremely thin, black voodoo doll resides on a shelf my roommate and I are the only hetero- so thin he a ppears almost translucent. On above the cigarette machine. Behind her sexuals left and the only tenants who can't Tuesday and Thursday nights at his book- head is a calendar depicting one brown afford real curtains. store, he teaches a class on fasting, which and two white men kneeling before the Probably as many soul searchers .live I plan to drop in on sometime-after din- Mother Mary, whose hand is raised in a in Des Moines or New York or Atlanta, ner, of course. peace mudra. but few places attract as many self-pro- Many people come to San Francisco The Mission is the warmest, sunniest claimed seekers as San Francisco. Orien- and never leave. True natives are rare. part of San Francisco. During the day, it tal religions and practices such as Zen, Although I still cherish an Easterner's seems as though a hole has been scissored T'ai Chi and Taoism are naturally more skepticism toward the city, my original out of the clouds that constantly enshroud popular here than in the East because the notion has proved to be true: an empty the city. San Francisco is universally ad- Orient informs this city just as European pocket doesn't preclude having a rich mired for its so-called mild climate, but I culture influences New York. experience in this particular Paradise. find it clammy, except in the Mission, and empathize with Mark Twain's observation that the coldest winter he ever knew was in San Francisco in July. San Francisco's summer weather was not just a disappointment, but a shock. I re- The way to Heaven sisted for several weeks before finally donning my winter coat and muffler. After the Black Death decimated The dampness does have a wonderful effect on flowers, which flourish every- Florence, people searched for the where. One flower particularly prevalent in the Mission is the Night Jasmine, or signposts to Heaven, ghetto gardenia. At night, its unforget- table fragrance can trigger hallucinations that the fire escapes are wrought iron By Nancy Rash Fabbri & Nina Rutenberg '79 balconies, the empty lot's a Spanish courtyard, the Taco Bell's a hacienda, and The following article is adapted from a volved the students in a group project you're in Mexico. longer piece co-authored by Associate studying the building and decoration of Besides its celebrated climate, cuisine Professor of Art History Nancy Rash the Orsanmichele tabernacle in the con- and natural and architectural beauty, San Fabbri and Nina Rutenburg 79, winner text of Trecento (fourteenth century) Francisco is also noted for its fashions. of the Lyman Allyn Museum Prize for Florence. The group project culminated Among its lesser known fashion sources excellence in art history. The article grew in a short "book" written by the class. The article on the tabernacle could not Frances T. Slack, '76, an English major at out of work done in an experimental have been written without the ideas of Connecticut, has been a writer and editor course offered in the spring of 1977, The everyone in the class: Cathy Bernstein for a social gerontology project at the City of Florence in the Early Renais- '80, Jane Goldfarb '80, Clarke Miller 77, medical school of the University of Cali- sance: Art, History and Letters. Taught by Lucia Montero 79, Nancy Moskin 78, fornia at San Francisco. She'll be study- Mrs. Fabbri and Associate Professor of Joan Pachner 78, Margaret Phinney 79, ing psychology at Berkeley in the fall. Italian Robert Proctor, the course in-

7 Robert Proctor, Martha Rago '79, Valerie RumsJeld '78, RoseEllen Sonfilippo '77 and Amy Schachter '77. We all are also extremely grateful to Diane Finiello Zervas '67, who is writing a monograph on Orsanmichele, for shar- ing her knowledge with us. Professor Zervas has spent the past two years at the Villa I Tatti in Florence and will be teaching next year at the University of Utrecht. **** In 1348 the Black Death struck Florence, killing more than half of her inhabitants. The horrors of the pestilence, so vividly described by Boccaccio in his Decameron, turned the city into a giant mortuary. One of those who survived, the chronicler Matteo Villani, tried to make some sense of the catastrophe as he took up the task of continuing the Chronicle begun by his brother Giovanni, who had died of the plague. "Having to commence our treatise by recounting the extermination of mankind ... my mind is stupefied as it approaches the task of recording the sen- tence that divine justice mercifully delivered upon men, who deserve, because they have been corrupted by sin, a last judgment."! Indeed, Heaven and Hell hung over the victims and at least some of the survivors. Villani goes on to describe their differing reactions to the plague: "Those few sensible people who remained alive expected many things, all of which, by reason of corruption or sin, failed to occur among mankind and actually followed marvelously in the contrary direction. They believed that those After the plague, large offerings were made to the Madonna of Orsanmichele (above), who God's grace had reserved for life, an image in the grain market which had worked miracles. having beheld the extermination of their neighbors, and having heard the same merous were the people who undertook working image of the Virgin.' tidings from all the nations of the world, pilgrimages or made offerings to the The tabernacle, begun around 1352 by would become better men, humble, vir- church. the artist Orcagna, provided fitting pro- tuous, and Catholic; that they would One of the most telling pieces of evi- tection for the painting of the Madonna. guard themselves from iniquity and sins; dence that people were seeking salvation In the hustle and bustle of the grain mar- and would be full of love and charity for is the extraordinary sum of money given ket, it also served to hallow the image. one another. But no sooner had the plague in offerings and legacies to the Madonna And finally, it was an extensive mirror of ceased than we saw the contrary; for since of Orsanmichele, an image in the grain salvation, speculum salvationis, for the men were few, and since by hereditary market of Florence which had worked many pilgrims who came to venerate the succession they abounded in earthly miracles since the end of the thirteenth image, making offerings of money ~nd goods, they forgot the past as though it century. Three hundred and fifty thou- wax ex votos to the thaumaturgic paint- had never been and gave themselves up to sand florins poured into the hands of the ing. These people were clearly seeking a more shameful and disordered life than custodians of the image, the Confra- salvation, and almost all parts of the they had led before ... "2 ternity of Orsanmichele, to be used as tabernacle seemed to answer them, show- Villani's pessimistic analysis seems to alms for the poor. Matteo Villani, always ing them the sign-posts to heaven. describe accurately the young men and the pessimist, records that since so many The tabernacle which is itself like a women in the Decameron who fled of the poor had died in the plague, the miniature "church" around the image, is Florence at the height of the plague. But leaders of the Confraternity began to covered with sculpture. In an age when there were far more than the "few" men- misuse the funds. The government in- paintings of the Triumph of Death and tioned by Villani who did seek grace and tervened in 1349 to control the elections vengeful Last Judgments were com~ ultimate salvation. The Flagellants, who of the officers of the confraternity. Soon missioned in Florence, in the Strozzi walked from town to town whipping thereafter money was set aside for the Chapel in Santa Maria Novella and i.n themselves in public, are an extreme ex- dowries of orphaned girls as well as for a Santa Croce", the positive imagery of this ample. Far less extreme and more nu- tabernacle to enclose the miracle- shrine is quite striking. Heaven is brought

B tabernacle-is the relief on the west of the tabernacle which actually shows a vision of heaven. This is the Death and As- sumption of the Virgin, a gigantic sculptural relief of heaven and earth. In the lower part of the relief, the Apostles are gathered around the bier, mourning the Virgin's death with such vivid expres- sions that an early historian like Ghiberti could see a self-portrait of Orcagna in one of the heads. The figures are crowded together and relatively small, making this part of the relief subordinate to the scene above. In the Assumption, only a few large figures are shown. The Virgin, en- throned and seated in a mandorla borne by angels, has risen bodily to Heaven. The miraculous nature of this event is stressed by the Virgin's size, and under- lined in the rest of the relief. For the Virgin is not shown simply in glory but rather is portrayed looking down to her right and dropping her belt to St. Thomas the Apostle, the Doubting Thomas who had voiced skepticism when told of the Vir- gin's bodily assumption. Not only is heaven made visible but tangible proof is offered to St. Thomas. Since the relic of the Virgin's belt was kept in the Col- legiata at nearby Prato, the choice of this scene is not surprising. Yet, when taken with the other decoration of the tabernacle, its importance increases. The tabernacle and the miracle-working image of the Virgin were the goal of pilgrims. Worshippers looking at the shrine were shown the way to heaven: through prayer and the Creed, through the adoption of the virtues, through the imitation of the life of Mary, and even Pilgrims were reassured by this depiction oj the Virgin dropping her belt to through pilgrimage. As if to give ultimate St. Thomas. The thin metal belt has been missing for hundreds oj years. assurance to the worshippers that this path would, in fact, lead to heaven, the within the reach of all worshippers not tabernacle, angels hold shields inscribed sculptural cycles culminate on the west only as they pray to the Virgin but also as with words from the Ave Maria. And al- with a vision of heaven, attained by Mary they peruse the sculpture of the shrine. most everywhere on the tabernacle, act- and given tangible proof in the belt she The worshipper approaching from the ing as architectural ornament, are dropped to the most skeptical of be- east was undoubtedly first drawn to the scallop shells, once the sign of a pilgrim- lievers, S1. Thomas the Apostle. image itself, a splendid gold and red age to Santiago, which by the middle of painting by Bernardo Daddi showing the the fourteenth century had become a * * * * Footnotes Christ Child caressing the cheek of His general sign for all pilgrims. 1. Matteo Villani, Cronica, Milan, 1834, mother. Below the image, on the taber- All the sculptures on the east side are Book I, chapter 2. nacle, two scenes from the life of the actually parts of several cycles of images. 2. Ibid.. Book I, chapter 4. Virgin, the Marriage and the Annuncia- The Ave Maria and the Creed continue 3. Giovanni Maria Monti, Le confratemita tion, provide the background for the around the tabernacle, as do the angelic rnedioevati deli'Alta e Media Italia, Venice, coming of Christ. In between them, the worshippers. The virtue Hope is part of 1927, 171, on the confraternity in the plague figure of Hope seems to embody the the most extensive cycle of virtues in years. emotions of the worshippers. Angels on medieval art. The Marriage and An- 4. Mil1ard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, Princeton, N.J., either side of the image invite adoration, nunciation are just two episodes in a 1951 (paperback edition, New York, 1964), nine-part life of the Virgin. The message as some of them play silent music in the for a general analysis of iconographic and Virgin's honor. And above on scrolls held of the whole tabernacle is clear. Through stylistic changes after the plague. Although by the apostles, the Creed begins and prayer and the Creed, through a virtuous we do not agree entirely with Meiss's hypot- ends: to the right of the image, St. Peter life like that of the Virgin, through pil- heses, we feel his book is a valuable contri- with the opening words, I believe in One grimage, the worshipper may hope to at- bution to the study of the interrelationships God; and to the left, the closing words, tain salvation and heaven. between art and culture. so meaningful to the worshippers here, Perhaps the most vivid reminder of 5. Lorenzo Ghiberti, II Secondo Commentario, Life everlasting. On the pinnacles of the this-and certainly the largest on the ed. Niccolai, Florence, 1956, 30.

9 Quartet music in the country Listening to Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, we are, for a trembling instant, in the presence of high sublimity, and we know it.

By Charles R. Shackford

An eminent composer and a professor of music at Connecticut Vienna), in putting a larger interpretation upon his impressions, College for 14 years, Charles R. Shackford was killed in an in translating the physical to the spiritual, in sensing that the automobile accident on April 20, 1979. He wrote "Quartet wonders of nature are a manifestation of the glory of God the Music in the Country't for the 50th anniversary of Music Moun- Creator and that beyond the simple beauties and grandeurs of tain, home oj the Berkshire Quartet. The Berkshire Quartet's the seen lie the infinitely vaster sublimities of the unseen, his August 12th concert was dedicated to Professor Shackford and conceptions were perfectly consonant with the most active featured the first performance of his String Quartet No.2. To philosophic thought of the time. Much published in Germany honor him, the college has established The Charles Shackford and translated into other languages was Christian Sturm's Memorial Fund, which will support both a commemorative con- Betrachtungen tiber die Werke Gattes in der Natur (Reflections cert and a lectureship for outstanding guest speakers in the field on God's Work in Nature), Frankfurt, 1780. In Beethoven's of music. Professor Shackjord's wife. Jane Wilson Shackford diary for 1818 appears the following excerpt from Sturm's trea- '52, generously shared this article with the Alumni Magazine. tise: "Nature is a glorious school for the heart! Tis well; I shall It is reprinted by permission of Music Mountain. be a scholar in this school and bring an eager heart to her in- struction. Here I shall learn wisdom, the only wisdom that is free from disgust; here I shall learn to know God and find a fore- I know of no greater enjoyment in the country taste of heaven in His knowledge." than quartet music. Nature as the great teacher is the message of Jean Jacques Rousseau in Emile, t762. It was taken up by Goethe and is The words are Beethoven's; the source is a letter, dated Vienna, central to the thought of Beethoven's English contemporary, 24 July 1813, to Rudolph von Habsburg, Cardinal and Arch- William Wordsworth. "One impulse from a vernal wood," wrote bishop of Olmtitz, known to lovers of music as the Archduke Wordsworth, "May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of Rudolph, Beethoven's pupil and patron, the recipient of many good, Than all the sages can." Beethoven's sense of an abso- extraordinarily distinghished dedications. The Archduke is in lutely compelling combination in nature of aesthetic and moral Baden, Austria, where Beethoven hopes to join him soon. Count power van be found in all the magnificence of a great poet's Rasoumowsky, who had in 1806 commissioned the three quar- control over language in the following passage from Words- tets of Opus 59, would be there, bringing with him the other worth's Tintern Abbey. members of his string quartet, Schuppanzigh, first violin, Weiss, viola and Linke, violoncello. For this reason the Archduke would And I have telt be assured excellent entertainment. A presence that disturbs me with the joy The quotation instantly brings to mind the association of mu- Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime sic and pastoral pleasures so apparent in Renaissance art and Of something far more deeply interfused, music, the fetes champetre genre, especially of Italian painting, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the madrigals. But Beethoven's words to the Archduke And the round ocean and the living air, Rudolph take on a more profound significance considered in the And the blue sky, and the mind of man: light of other of his writings about nature and the countryside. A motion and a spirit, that impels Reading these one is always smitten by their intensity. In All thinking things, all objects of all thought, Baden for a benefit performance of Fidelia, July 1814, Beetho- And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still ven wrote: "In the country it seems as if every tree said to me: A lover of the meadows and the woods, 'Holy! holy! Who can give complete expression to the ecstasy of And mountains, and of all that we behold the woods! 0, the sweet stillness of the woods!" From this green earth; of all the mighty world In a letter to Baroness von Drosdick (Therese Malfatti) he Of eye, and ear,-both what they half create, wrote, "How happy I am to be able to wander among bushes And what perceive; well pleased to recognise and herbs, under trees and over rocks, no man can love the In nature and the language of the sense country as I love it." In September, 1812, on the Kahlenberg in The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, the woods north of Vienna, and overlooking the Danube to the The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul east, he wrote the following on a page of music paper, once in Of all my moral being. the possession of the violinist Joseph Joachim: "Almighty One Touching and revealing as they are, Beethoven's writings on in the woods I am blessed. Happy everyone in the woods. Every nature are no match for his music. It is the music that defines tree speaks through Thee. 0 God! What glory in the woodland. the thoughts and makes them so convincing. Appealing directly On the heights is peace, peace to serve him ... " and unequivocally to our feelings, it also informs our under- While Beethoven's passionate feeling for nature was nour- standing of Rousseau, Goethe and Wordsworth with stunning ished by his ramblings around the countryside, (first in the clarity. Its thematic material, like the surface of nature, is sim- Rhineland area of his native Bonn, later in the wooded hills near ple, direct and unconfusing in its evocation of feeling. One

10 yields to it with confidence. "Cheerful feelings on arriving in tion and their performance the instruments present at the same the country" are instantly engendered by the opening of the time the fewest material obstacles and the greatest artistic chal- Sixth Symphony, borrowed from a Bohemian polka. But beyond lenges. As in Beethoven's view of nature and in the processes of the seen lies the unseen; the development of thematic material his music, the way lies from the simple to the infinite. leads to high levels of visionary speculation. In the coda of the Thematic development as an exercise of the faculties of first movement of the Sixth Symphony a simple and attractive imagination and speculation is very apparent in movements melody suggestive of the musette is transformed into an ex- from the Beethoven quartets of all periods. For example, com- clamation of great fervor. In the coda of the final movement the pare initial statements with various destinations in the first climactic passage of the symphony as a whole is attained by movements of Opus 18, No. I, Opus 59, No. I, and Opus 127. the development of the gentlest and most unassuming of the- That the medium is so well suited to convey suggestions of the matic ideas. As the basses ascend through majestic arpeggios visionary and the sublime which he saw in nature may well be a.nd the treble gradually drops through dissonance and resolu- the real significance of Beethoven's observation in the letter to tion, the effect is overwhelming; for a trembling instant we are the Archduke Rudolph. It may also be the reason the string in the presence of high sublimity and we know it. "Music," quartet received so much of his creative effort in the 1820s after wrote John Milton in Paradise Lost, "the greatest good that he had so thoroughly explored the possibilities of other instru- mortals know, And all of heaven we have below." mental media. Considering the relationship between Beethoven's view of Beethoven spent the late summer and early fall of 1826 on his nature and the processes at work in his music, it is not surpris- brother's country place in Gneixendorf, completing his last ing that he would especially associate the string quartet with the work, Opus 135, a string quartet. To the publisher B. Schott countryside. Because it is of all instrumental media the least en- and Sons he wrote on October 13th: "The neighborhood in c.umbered by technology and offers the greatest range of expres- which I am now staying reminds me in some degree of the Rhine sive possibilities, the string quartet is the most susceptible of districts, which I so deeply long to see again, as I already left translating the physical to the spiritual. In both their construe- them in my youth."

11 The College:::::::....- _ The jungle blackboard

The authors endured an earthquake, climbed By Linda Noll Demas '78 pyramids and drank beer in the jungle & Jo Levitt Vanderkloot '62 on an Anthropology Department study tour Thirteen undergraduates don't usually have the chance to travel to Mexico with of Mexico City and the Yucatan. an attorney, a registered nurse, a marathon runner, an orthodontist, two teenagers and two professors. But because the Anthropology Department was the first on campus to have a visiting committee, this happily diverse group did make a study-vacation trip to Mexico las! spring. The visiting committee, a new idea at Connecticut, is "one of the most exciting things that has happened in a long time," according to Professor oj Anthropology

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June Macklin. The visiting committee serves to bring different points of view and suggestions for improvement /0 departments, to create closer ties with members oj the Southern Connecticut community, to keep friends of the college informed and to involve people who wish to help the college in a meaningful way. The committee's alumni members- Linda Noll Demas, a nurse who received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Connecticut in 1978, and Jo Levitt Van· Jerk/Dot '62, a marathon runner who works with her husband as a real estate development advisor- wrote this report on the Mexican trip for the Alumni Magazine. New London attorney Robert Sussler, who serves on the visiting committee, made the trip, as did Dr. Peter Demas, Professor Macklin, Associate Professor of Classics Joann Silverberg, and Jo Vanderkloot's daughters Katie (15) and Pam (12). The other committee member, Robert Manners, who chairs Brandeis University's Department oj Anthropo- logy, did not accompany the group. * *** Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan, Quetzal- coatl, Chac, Tenochtitlan-c-the names evoke a sense of adventure and mystery. From the time we received the rough itinerary for our study-vacation trip to Mexico City and the Yucatan until the last slide was packed away, we felt the strong pull of anticipation. Our diverse group of undergraduates, faculty, members of the visiting committee and alumnae children met together for the first time at Kennedy Air- port on an early morning in March. Virtually all of the thirteen students had some affiliation with anthropology. Half of the students, as well as Joann Silver- berg of the Classics Department, were taking June Macklin's course on Meso- america; the rest were anthropology majors. Six of us spoke Spanish. Our journey began in Mexico City, the ancient capital of the Aztecs. A charming Spanish colonial hotel, the Maria Chris- tina, was our home base. We each con- ,~( tributed twenty cents per night for a common room which served as a meeting Bilingual Mayan Indians in a small Yucatecan village. Opposite, the Feathered Serpent place. There we learned from each other deity-known as Quetzalc6atl in the Valley of Mexico, and Kukulcan in the Yucatan the best markets, subway, bus routes and _ is a ubituitous image. These are at Chichen Itzd, a classic Mayan site restaurants. We shared experiences, probably abandoned about A. D. 1200. swapped news and posted plans. Opportunities for observing and apply- sold an array of attractively carved fresh He and Dr. Litvak, a well-known Meso- ing the abstractions of the classroom were fruits which was hard to resist. american archaeologist and the In- abundant. On Sunday, our first full day, Mexico City was a delight for anthro- stitute's director, gave us an exclusive several of us walked the Paseo de la Re- pology students largely because of the tour of the facilities and described in de- forma, Mexico City's major boulevard, to enthusiasm of Drs. Luis Alberto Vargas tail the archaeology, ethnology and ap- Chapultepec Park, which is particularly and Jaime Litvak of the Institute for plied anthropology going on in Mexico. ~nteresting on a Sunday morning. Mex- Anthropological Research at the National Their talk, enlivened with anecdotes and roan families from all socio-economic Autonomous University of Mexico. Dr. inside information, made us eager to ~oups .gathered there to enjoy their Vargas, who has worked with June Mack- learn more. leisure time. Colorfully clothed children lin, is assistant director of the Institute. Continued on page 20.

13 The Biggest Reunion Ever

Nine hundred alumni and guests returned for reunions, joined the class of 1919 in celebrating our first 60th reunion, saw Estelle Parsons '49 in a sizzling performance of Miss Margarida's Way and heard a lecture series on China. Photographs by Geoffrey Day '80.

14 Wearing his Connecticut College tie at the all-campus of Quaker Hill were part of the reason everyone had Chinese banquet is Professor Charles Chu (top left), such a great time. That's Joan Lambert McPhee '49 who gave the Phi Beta Kappa lecture on Chinese art. (lower right) with Harold K. Douthit, husband of Mary Stecher Douthit '49. The biggest class at reunion, the Esther Batchelder '19 (top right), who came all the way from Puerto Rico, and Marenda Prentis '19 (lower left) '4gers cheered classmate Estelle Parsons (opposite).

15 Estelle Parsons pretended to look benign (right) as she welcomed the 500 alumni who would become her "class" in Miss Margarida's Way. No one could possibly forget Estelle's portrayal of a tyrannical junior high school teacher. Nonetheless, she wrote her name (below) on the board "so you don't forget it." Getting reacquainted (center) are several '2gers (l-r): Verne Hall, Frances Tillinghast, Faith Grant Brown and Phyllis Heintz Malone. The gracious mastermind of the Chinese banquet and numerous other miracles was Eleanor Voorhees (bottom left), the retiring director of residence. Eleanor became an honorary member of the Alumni Association and received a hug from the college's personnel director, Tony Sheridan '74, who was enjoying his 5th reunion. r

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16 That's the amazing executive director of the Alumni Association, Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 (in polka dots, top) averting some disaster with the aid of Enid Sivigny Gorvine '54, the Asso- ation's new assistant director. Enid, who was celebrating her 25th reunion, will have both her daughters enrolied at Connecticut this fall. Right, several alumni make their leisurely way past New London Hall to the Association's annual meeting in Cummings Arts Center. The class of '29 (above) turned out in force for their 50th. Breakfast in Harris was a farnily affair for Ellen Robinson Epstein '69 (right), while Mark Vokey '74, his wife Melissa and Alexander Farley '75 (opposite page, right) downed a few rnilks in honor of Mark's 5th reunion. Frances Wells Vroorn '29 (opposite page, top right) rnodelled her old gyrn suit at the all-carnpus picnic. Even with rnore than 600 picnickers, there was still plenty of roorn on Harkness Green to play frisbee (center).

18 Following Oakes Ames' ,address to alumni, members of conneclicut College s first class recaptured the excitement of the college's beginnings for a large audience in Dana Hall. The program was moderated by Marenda Prentis '19 (opposite page, right), who waited three years for the college to open, meanwhile teaching first grade. Esther Batchelder '1g, who has a Ph.D. in chemis- try from Columbia, spoke about sports. She described 11 gym classes and hard-fought intramurals and mis- chievously recalled that "We wore our pastel-colored cheesecloth robes in interpretive dances on the green between Plant and Blackstone." Sadie Co it Benjamin's diary provided details of the freshman year of 1915. Sadie (opposite page, left) had worked and waited for two years for the college to open, "and then the Norwich

COllege CI fUll tuitloUb"awarded me their first $150 scholarship- PersPen .. Florence Lennon Romaine '19 added her sOn Of t~tlve on student life and Christopher Sykes', me . M e College's first president, and "class baby" a gOvmOrles~'IYn Morris Lee described their own earliest ernment ~~ording to Virginia Rose's report on student gOvern' There was never any doubt that we would

·chriSto 6her Sykes died suddenly on June 19, 1979. LJrsympathy is extended to his wife, Carita, and their two daughters. Mexico City, came into her own. Sur- Mayan children led us' hand in hand JUNGLE BLACKBORAD rounded by eager students and adults, down a dark and slippery path to an Continued from page 13. she tirelessly answered all questions, underground cenote. Later we drank highlighting in the field what she had cold beer beneath a thatched roof, con- emphasized in the classroom. Somewhat tent with life and each other, storing away At the National Museum of Anthro- isolated, the group began to spend more more shared pleasures to bind us together. pology, we found more of what we had time together. Each day offered a dis- We all derived a great deal from the come for. Besides a wealth of pre-Colum- covery about ourselves and about Mexico trip intellectually, emotionally and per- bian exhibits, the museum traces the past and present. sonally. There was ample opportunity for arrival of man in the Americas. Here one Mayan ruins and Yucatan are almost long conversations, some serious, some discovers the civilizations of Olmecs, synonymous. The first stop in the land fun. We learned what frustrates under- Toltecs, Mayans, Zapotecs and Aztecs. of the pheasant and the deer was Uxmal, graduates at Connecticut and what makes The ethnography of contemporary rural where intense heat and lack of shade them proud. Mexico is depicted in life-size replicas dictated early morning and early evening To some of us, getting to know the of Yucatan grass huts and scenes from site explorations. Wanting to view Uxmal Connecticut College students was one of the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas and in the peace and stillness of sunrise, Peter the very special aspects of the trip. The Michoacan. Demas, Virginia Hollins '81 and Linda warmth and friendship expressed within An event more geological than an- Demas climbed to the top of the site's the group profoundly affected Katie and thropological was a major earthquake highest structure, the Pyramid of the Pam Vanderldoot, who are now looking registering 7.8 on the Richter Scale. It Magician. Arriving just at sunrise, we forward to their own group experiences began at 5 A.M. The morning was eerily were stunned by the beauty and mystery in boarding school this fall. quiet, the sky lit only by arcs of electricity of what had been created here. Too soon, Linda Demas will use the slides and from falling wires. The prolonged sway- however, we noticed the steep angle of memories she collected to share her en- ing and groaning of the Maria Christina descent. Although we had scrambled to thusiasm for anthropology with others. was unnerving and frightening. After- the top, our descent was cautious and She has planned slide presentations at wards we assembled in the courtyard, all crab-like. several secondary schools including the talking at once and too excited to sleep. EI Castillo, the pyramid at Chichen Williams School in New London, and Old Not much later, Dean R. Francis Johnson Itza, offered a dramatic view, but the in- Saybrook Senior High, where Linda telephoned to confirm our safety and re- ner, earlier Temple to Kukulcan, with its Dernikat '68 teaches French and Spanish. layed his reassurance to our families. jade-encrusted red throne in the form of The trip was a positive experience for Twenty-four hours later we were on our the sacred jaguar, commanded our at- all of us. One student found an idea for her way to the Yucatan. Getting around in tention. The Cenote Sagrado, or Well of honors project, two others decided to de- Mexico can be an adventure in itself. Bob Sacrifice, was a striking contrast to the clare as anthropology majors, some want Sussler, however, had quietly assumed all man-made splendors. The cenote, a na- to become more fluent in Spanish and still responsibility for travel arrangements. tural pool formed in limestone, was the others plan to return to Mexico for further He also told us where to find banks, the scene of human sacrifice to the god Chac, anthropological studies. best rate of exchange, the most reliable a practice that continued briefly after the services, and was our authority on current Spaniards' arrival. political and economic affairs in Mexico. Mornings exploring archaeological The students on the trip were: Wendy It was not surprising, therefore, that upon sites blended into afternoons visiting Carrick '79, Terry Greene '81, Melora our arrival in Merida, our Avis rental cars Mayan villages. With deep blue cloudless Gregory '82, Virginia Hollins '81, John were waiting and we embarked on our skies overhead, the ribbon-like road Kosa '80, Elizabeth Kunreuther '82, Mary first of eight days in the Yucatan. stretched ahead over the flat jungle ter- Beth Maternowski 'SO, Jennifer Murray Our group drew together in the Yuca- rain. The more obscure the village, the '82, Anne Richards '81, Charles Sorren- tan. June Macklin, who had been co- warmer our reception. On a particularly tino '79, Augusta Warden '80, Diane ordinator of a loosely knit group in hot afternoon in Mani, shy, barefoot Weiner '82 and Richard Wilde '81.

cut, there is a fond place in my heart for Whelan '65 at her "Baby Maybe" coun- Letlers you. seling services-never suspecting that she Nancy Oskow-Schoenbrod '69 was not only a Connecticut graduate but Brooklyn, New York also at the college when 1 was. Your selec- To the Editor: tion of the range of articles on mothers, The last issue of the Alumni Magazine Please see the articles in this issue about mothering and careers was especially in- was enjoyable and reflected the quality the tabernacle of Orsanmichele, quartet teresting to me as a historian with special and depth of study available at Connecti- music, and the Anthropology Depart- interests in the history of women and the cut College. Perhaps future issues could ment's trip to Mexico. family. Moreover I enjoyed the combina- share with us more work being done at -Ed. tion of faculty contributions with the first- the college and more academic work done To the Editor: hand alumnae accounts. You should be by alumni. I came across the Connecticut Many congratulations for the splendid very pleased with such an issue. College Library Bulletin while at reunion Spring 1979 Alumni Magazine. The issues Sometime it might be interesting to do and I thoroughly enjoyed all of its articles. get better all the time, but this one was an issue around the theme of "older I'm sure other alumni would find these right on the money for me. mothers" as I suspect there is a high pop- articles of interest. At 38 I have just had my first (and only) ulation of such among the graduates of Also, let me share with you the joy I felt son, have returned to my college teach- Connecticut College. at returning to Connecticut and seeing my ing career and three years previously had Linda J. Lear '62 old friends during the reunion. Connecti- an interview with Elizabeth Murphy Washington D. C.

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The first class in the college has had its 60th children and two great-grandsons. of Ruth Barber McLaughlin, who died on March 15, 19 Reunion and everything and everybody Eunice Gates Collier has purchased a wee house on 1979. Sympathy is extended to Anna Mallon Murray, conspired to make it a happy and successful oc- her beloved Mason's Island. She is thrilled to be back whose husband, Dr. W.J. Murray, died in October. casion-even the weather was fine and the campus there, indeed so thrilled that she has lost her love of Our sympathy is extended to the family of Alberta at its loveliest. Elsewhere in this issue you will see wandering and traveling. Her big wish is that all the Lynch Sylvester, who died in October, 1978. pictures and reports of events so I'll just tell you twenty-ires about would drop in to see her. Correspondent: Mrs. John H. Goodman (Mary who came back. Eleanor Seaver Massonneau is living alone in a Virginia Morgan Goodman), Box 276, Noank, CT First of all I must give an award to our class presi- comfortable small house near her daughter Jeanne. dent, Prent the Stalwart (Marenda Prentis), who Eleanor writes that although she is suffering from 06340 kept everything and everybody in mind so that all high taxes and inflation, she is quite healthy phy- went off smoothly. Batch (Esther Batchelder) sically and lives in the memory of her former way of Margaret Baxter Butler in the first two came from Puerto Rico and with Sadie Coit Benjamin life and finds lots to be thankful for. 22 months of '78 was on the high Atlantic from Norwich shepherded our flock and saw that Maud Carpenter Dustin reports the Dusuns are seas and doesn't recommend ocean travel that season everyone was duly corsaged with a white rose and still able to care for themselves and enjoy entertaining of the year-too rough. In Oct. she traveled for 35 class colors. I'm sorry that a coronary in Feb. cramped their family. Life seems to revolve about the gathering days in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and plans two my style a bit, but I got to the picnic on Sat. of the 3 I-person clan. other trips. She moved to Presbyterian Village 25 It was so good to see Christopher and Coritll Sykes Fanchon Hartman Title and her husband are still miles from Grosse Pointe. She sold her house in 48 and our class baby, Marilyn Morris Lee, now a hand- traveling. This winter they went to Egypt, Israel and hours, cleared out an accumulation of 40 years. She some young grandmother. Jake Wells' daughter Malta, which she says is a channing place. has completed 500 hours of volunteer work in a little Marjorie and Amy Kugler Wadsworth's daughter Kathryn Hulbert Hall reports that her second less than four years. Barbara (C.c. '45) also came as did Madeleine Dray cataract operation is successfully over, she is driving Elizabeth Merrill Blake had a "luxurious" time Kepe:s' sister Eleanor and Juline Warner Com- again and is most grateful for new glasses. She often with daughter Sally and Dick in FL for three weeks at stock's sisters Marion '20 and Harriet '24. The follow- talks to Dorothy (Dottie) Stone on the telephone the end of Dec. As a Navy Commander, Sally will be ing members of 1920 also joined us for our 60th: when she visits her son's family. Kay says Dottie's in charge of human resources at Pearl Harbor in July. Fanchon Hartman Title, Catherine Finnegan, cheerfulness and bravery are an inspiration. They will sell their home at Gulf Breeze. "Such is life Mildred Howard, Kathryn Hulbert Hall, Loretta Dorothy Stelle Stone, although she is legally blind, in the Navy." Higgins, and Dora Schwartz Epstein. sent your correspondent a letter which was most Mary Damerel speeks about forcing forsythia In addition to those mentioned above the following readable. She is in Heritage Hall in Agawam and is during the spring-like days in Jan. She keeps active tsers made it: Ruth Ayery French, Florence Carns, happy to have her son in Wellesley. Her two daugh- walking to and from the center of town-about a mile. Pauline Christie, Elizabeth Hannon Corliss, Edith ters, two granddaughters and daughter-in-taw are Mildred Duncan reports shingles from July through Kirby, and Rosa Wilcox Tappey and husband Le- graduates of c.c. Dottie deeply regrets she was not Oct '78-not entirely over them yet. "I was so thankful opold Charles. able to see her granddaughter Cynthia Stone grad- to be here in Bethesda Town House in my own apt. We and son Steve, Jean Sawin Hawley, Marion Shea uate from c.c. this June. have maid service once a week." She is back to driving Emma Wippert Pease says Spring has come to Kerby, and Rosa Wilcox Tappey and husband Le- for Meals on Wheels once a week. opold Charles. dingy Hartford and flowering beauty is everywhere Blanche Finley attended Alumni Council in Sept. Our special thanks must go to the College Li- outside, but inside she hopefully wishes for additions and was "really impressed with the college. It was brarian Brian Rogers, and the College Archivist to 1920's scrapbook. Send her suitable material: a beautiful; the new buildings blend in so well with the Gertrude Noyes '25 for their help in arranging the clipping, a snapshot of yourself or your latest great- architecture. I am still working on the 4th volume of splendid exhibit in the library of 1919 pictures, grandchild. my book and hope by the end of '79 a 5-year supple- posters and mementos. Mildred Howard has joined the local golf dub ment will be done. China trip was fabulous. I am a bit I must close on a sad note, the death of two of our hoping to get some exercise as she walks the course, weary after it." Blanche as class agent hopes we can classmates since my last report: Gertrude Espen- but she is doubtful as to how much she will play (and maintain our rank among the first 10 classes in the I quote from her letter) "at this advanced age." scheid on Feb. 26, and Helen Cannon Cronin on giving list. April 9. Your correspondent at her advanced age wishes to Alice Hagar Schoffstall sympathizes with Connie Correspondent: Virginia C. Rose, 20 A very La., state that she is in her 10th year writing a daily coping with things in an old house. "When I sold this Waterford, CT 06385 column, Noank Noles, for the Norwich Bulletin. She one, everything was pushed back to my part that goes is kept very busy appearing in pu bltc making speeches. back to the Civil War. Iam so glad that my grandson She was honored to be asked to make the graduation Duncan is here in college and comes often to stir me address at a local high school this June. up." 20 Clarissa Ragsdale Harrison says that being The class of 1920 extends its sympathy to the family Constance Hill Hathaway is pleased with the many 80 years old is not as crippling as she responses to individual notes she added to the Council thought it would be-with good diet, exercise, rest notes she sent out. She busied herself drying herbs in an absorbing interest in church and community af- the fall; continued weekly visits to a convalescent fairs she has managed to live thus far without aches IN MEMORIAM hospital, arranging flowers and visiting with the and pains. She doesn't even let her glaucoma eyes patients. She hopes to perk up come spring. bother her too much. She is looking forward to a visit Mollie Kenig Silversmith looks forward to another this summer from her step-daughter and her husband Helen Cannon Cronin '19 mini-reunion in the near future. who are coming from CA to FL to see her. Gertrude Espenscheid '19 Lucy McDannel thinks that N.L. weather is superb, Rachel Parker Porter sends her love to all the class. Ruth Barber McLaughlin '20 much milder than in metropolitan NY. She is taking In October she and her husband will be married a course, "The Opera" with one opera each session 59 years, with two children, seven grandchildren, Edith Williams Williams '21 based on performances at the Mel. "Formerly my th.ree great-grandchildren. She hopes to get to Gertrude Busch Sayre '23 courses were in art history. I keep busy with work FIshers Island for the summer with her family. Abigail Hollister Lamphier '23 which my NY office mails me." Alice Horrax Schell writes that there is a FL West Janette Booth '27 Helen Merritt added acrylic painting and teaching Coast Alumni group which meets four times a year piano to her activities. She gave up the piano when In Sarasota and S1. Petersburg. There are none in the Erin Morris '29 school duties became too onerous. Helen and group from 1920 but she enjoys it. She is a member Eleanor Sherman Vincent '32 Irving have a real paved road in their land, increasing of Friends of the Arts and Sciences and attends many Edna Grubner Gilman '35 the value of their property and their peace of mind. lectures and exhibits. Although her life in FL is most Gertrude Mehling Partington '36 She reports a tour of the Saguenay, an AARP tour to pleasant she and her husband are always glad to get Cape Cod, a six-day trip in their own car to NC and home to CTs hills in Colebrook. Dorothy Sundt Brownlee '38 four days at the Montrose (PA) Bible Conference. Helen Hams Small writes that she and her husband Nancy Morton Duffy '52 Minniola Miller is writing a book, "one of those celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in March. Claire Garber Goodman '54 which will change the world. It's a commentary on Her daughter graduated from C.c. in 1942. She and Hermione Robertson '73 current history. Besides the book, I have hours of her husband have traveled to many places and now painting and living. This is a terrible 'i' letter but :-V0rk hard in their house and gardens to keep them Grandma Moses painted until she reached 100 and In fine shape for the visits of their children, grand-

21 although I ought to be dead already with broken back Co-correspondents: Marjorie E. Smith, 537 Angell Correspondent: Mrs. Thomas Baldwin (Elizabeth etc., I'm not going to quit now." She had difficulties St., Providence, R/ 02906; Mrs. Raymond Blake Holmes), 57 Millbrook Road, Medfield, MA 02052 with broken glasses, eye tests. (Elizabeth Merrill), 25 Warren Ave., Amesbury, MA Augusta O'Sullivan had a successful cataract 01913 operation late in Sept. Only disadvantage of the new Barbara Brooks Bixby and Chet, our cham- glasses is that "I see many things that need doing that 2 6 pion long-distance travelers, left for a trip I didn't know about before. I spend my time feeding M.deleine Foster Conklin writes from FL to China in April, under the auspices of the Theatre hundreds of birds and my coon hound." She antici- 24 that she is busy with graduations: a grand- Guild. pates another mini-reunion. daughter graduates from c.c. this year and a grand- Dorothy Brooks Cobb and her husband spent Amy Peck Yale has a new great-grandson, John son from Andover. She looks forward to our 55th Christmas in MN with their elder son and his family. David. As the parents live in Waterbury, she sees and hopes we have a big turnout. The temperature never got above -60 the whole time. them often. The other two great-grands live in KY Virginia Hays Fisher has "no news of interest to They have long since returned to FL to thaw out. where father is completing seminary studies and has anyone" but did not want '24 to think she was in- Edna Smith Thistle sold her house and moved to an a church of his own. Amy and Harriet are building a different. apartment in Montclair, NJ. A big job to make the solar house. Grandson Mark is visiting from CA. Gladys Westerman Greene won't be able to get change, but she is loving her new situation. "I haven't driven since my illness three years ago; to our 55th as a granddaughter is being married III NJ Barbara Bell Crouch and husband Ellis have been use a cane because arthritis makes me unsteady. on June 2. Gladys will have her 55th wedding an- making an extended visit to their son and daughter- Memory isn't up to par but I manage." niversary in Aug. this year. They have had a severe in-law, the Calvin Crouches in Alexandria, VA, while Anne Slade Frey "spent most of the winter in Texas winter in MD and she longs for spring. Barbara is having some medical treatment there, with Janet in Corpus Christi and several weeks on my son-in-law's ranch near the Mexican border. A great relief to be away from the Northeast," where the winter was horrible. Gladys Smith Packard keeps busy in Clearwater and enjoys the warm weather. She visited her daughters in CT in the fall and since then injured her back and is forced to rest a lot. She speaks of a c.c. chapter meeting at Sand Key in Feb. which she thoroughly enjoyed. Toni Taylor says she hasleft the big executive jobs in NY and has been teaching writing at three VT colleges and the spring session at the New School for Social Research in NY. She takes pleasure in speeding young writers on their way. She took a trip to England last summer and loves VT. Her children's camp there is still thriving. Miriam Taylor Beadle and husband moved to an Episcopal retirement house with built-in medical facilities and enjoy it immensely. "All sorts of classes and discussion groups and I am taking up my painting (oil and water color) again." They flew to London and took an educational cruise to Norway, Denmark and Amsterdam, with 600 students and 300 adult passengers. "We sat in on lectures about ports of call. The students had their studies, gymnasium, etc. below; boundaries were strictly enforced." Olive Tuthill Reid has her ups and downs. Sickness forced her to miss Kirk's tournament at Agawam Seventeen members of the pioneering class of 1919 returned to campus for their Hunt Club in East Providence, RI, but their daughter and her husband went over from Cape Cod. Kirk 60th reunion. Shown above are (l-r): Marenda E. Pre ntis, Amy Kugler Wadsworth, played another tennis match in Portsmouth, NH and Edith Harris Ward, Sadie Coit Benjamin, Ruth Avery French, Esther Batchelder had his picture published in Modern Maturity and Florence T. Carns. magazine. Gertrude Traurig, away from the frigid air of New England, basked in San Diego. Ava Mulholland Hilton had thought she would Frances Green recently met Amy Wakefield at Wrey Warner Barber has been in and out of hos- "be back from So. America for the reunion but her Chestnut Hill and they did "a minimum of shopping pitals with surgery. "Had amputation of right leg. ship has been delayed two weeks." Her third great- and a maximum of visiting." Am walking on two four-footed canes but am still grandchild is due soon-time rushes by. Elisabeth (Betsy) Linsley Hollis and husband here." Hazel Converse Laun continues her volunteer Carlyle were in FL last Dec. They visited Dorothy Dorothy Wheeler Pietrallo is anxious for a mini- activities for nursing home patients, enjoys a study Andrews Funk in Port Richey before returning home reunion in Mayor June. She speaks about wild life group and bridge, and looks forward to her garden. to Devonshire, Bermuda. around her VT home-mink, beaver, faxes, deer, She went to NY to see the King Tut exhibit. She is well Catharine (Kay) Dauchy Bronson and Bert en- coyote and hear. and enjoys what she is doing. joyed a trip to New Orleans this Spring; were en- Marjorie Smith and her sister, Edna Thistle '26, Dorothea Cramer hopes Marie Jester Kyle will ac- thralled with the gardens along their way; saw some enjoyed another Christmas holiday at Tides Inn, company her to reunion. She is busy and well. Her of the floods in AL, but were able to skirt them. Irvington, VA. Edna moved to an apt. in Montclair church, Center Congregational, a well-known granite Katherine (Kay) Colgrove made her annual visit and could share experiences with Margaret Butler. church in the middle of Torrington, was struck by to Nantucket last summer, for the 42nd time. Marjorie is busy at Hamilton House with dining room arson in Jan. Hazel Osborn takes two or three courses a term at duties and bowling once a week with a large group Margaret Dunham Cornwell is busy getting ad- the Metropolitan Museum and serves in several from H.H. She volunteers in a church project- justed to a new phase. She is doing accounting three volunteer capacities: two mornings a week as a first 5ERRV. Lifetime Learning is in its llth year. mornings a week for a friend's veterinary hospital. grade teacher in E. Harlem; a half day a week at the Anne Slade Frey is home from Greece, Turkey and Emily Mehaffey Lowe spent the winter in Sarasota Museum of American Folk Art; and irregularly with Yugoslavia. and plans to be in NC this summer and fall. the NY Commission for Young Audiences. Helen Stickle Downes' husband passed away in Marie Jester Kyle writes enthusiastically from Your correspondent serves as chairman of the Jan. '78. "I keep busy which helps-also am very near Kona Plantation on the Big island of Hawaii, which Groton Public Library Board. We recently com- Diana, my younger daughter who has three children: is known as the volcano or the orchid island. This is pleted a fine new library building for the town. Have one son a senior in VA Episcopal School; another a their 5th Hawaiian winter vacation. This year had a also worked for the past three years on C.C.'s mam- senior at William and Mary; fi-year-old Katherine cottage for five weeks. moth October book sale to benefit the new library, a first-grader." The class extends sympathy to Helen It is with sadness that we report the loss of five of have edited a medical book and prepared camera- and her family. our class members during the past six months: Dotha ready copy for an extensive volume of genealogy for Sympathy is extended to Margaret Butler on the White 10/19/78; Lena Clark Weinmayr 12/24/78; a local incorporated family association. passing of her sister Betsy. Edith Langenbacher Breede I f I/79; Helen Mc- Sympathy is extended to the family of Elsie Eck- The Class of '22 grieves with Claudine Smith Grath Clarke 2/4/79; and Katherine Shelton Bind- hardt Lilley, who died in New Port Richey, FL, on Hanes's family over her death in Dec. We shall miss loss 2/23/79. Wc shall miss them and we send our Nov. 18, 1978, and to the family of Lois Gordon her. sympathy to their families. Saunders, who died in Alexandria, VA, on Oct. II,

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1978. attended a course in fireplace cookery and enjoys Hilda Van Horn Rickenbaugh and Rick have gone Correspondent: Mrs. Frank J. Kohl (Jessie E birding. from one coast to the other on business trips and an- Williams), 263 Old Brook St .. Noank, CT 06340 Truth Wills Crooks is grateful to organizers of our nual Collie Club of America's judging. While East reunion and the little book which keeps the pleasant they visited friends and daughter with a Nassau trip memories alive. Recently one daughter recovered on the side. Dorothy Bayley Morse, our class president, from neuro-surgery, while the other survived an ac- Merle (Molly) Hawley Smith sends thanks for the 2 8 died in NY on March 13. To her husband cident driving East from CO with husband and three reunion book. "Glad I'm active, grateful I have no Harry the class extends deep sympathy. As a tribute sons. She and Harold plan on FL in April. health problems except those which go along with to her we wish to retire the title "president of the Madelyn Wheeler Chase enjoys her FL winter in being a senior citizen." Her Christmas in Dallas with Class of 1928" that she may be our first class president brand new surroundings. daughter and family was extended due to a severe ice and our last. Lotta Hess Ackerman writes from NY that she en- storm. "My spring coat was not wann enough and I Henrietta (Honey Lou) Owens Rogers, Jim and joyed being at our 50th, missed her beautiful FL was glad to get home." daughter Kathy went to the service for Dot. winter because she has been a patient at Sloan Roberta Bitgood Wiersma, with many trips over Elizabeth Gordon Van Law, as vice president, will Kettering, and has been living since her operation the country as pres. of the American Guild of Or- retain that title but carry out responsibilities of the in one of the hospital apartments where she receives ganists, finds time to catch up with former students, president's office. treatment until May. choir members, college and family friends. As she Truth Wills Crooks and Hazel Gardner Hicks some Margaretta Briggs Noble plans to visit both lives but two miles from c.c. campus, she enjoys years ago proposed that the library start a collection daughters in CA this spring and return home via swimming at the college pool and counts on attending of class rings showing how they have changed in for- Hawaii. Last summer she enjoyed a visit with Dot most reunions. Sarah Emily (Say Say) Brown Schoenhut and mat and design through the years. Last Sept., Dot Davenport voorhees and Ralph at the Thousand Bayley and Hazel presented Brian Rogers, librarian, Island home. George found their VT winter long, deep and cold, with a 1928 class ring. We hope other classes will Dorothy Davenport voorness and Ralph returned interlarded with frozen pipes and brisk gustings off the nearby ice cap. A warm note was a surprise get- follow suit. from MO (daughter and son-in-law's cattle ranch) together with Betty Gordon Van Law and an op- We are proud to announce our 50th reunion gift to where they baby-sat two grandsons, though it was a portunity to meet and see Estelle Parsons '49 in Miss the college, $53,755.82, the largest 50th gift to date. question as to who baby-sat whom. Dot routed them Margarida at Dartmouth. Britta Schein McNemar Elizabeth Gordon Van Law is busy with Alumni out of bed at 5 to do their chores while she manned the '67 masterminded a luncheon of nearby c.c.ers to Laurels, her "good works" (Red Cross Blood Bank, kitchen but the boys were in charge of some 300 cows, welcome Estelle, "a c.c. government major and hospital and visits to a nearby nursing home), not to all pregnant. Home via New Orleans and a week's graduate and now an award-winning actress." mennon keeping up with her children and grand- trip on the Mississippi Queen. On Apr. 10 Dot has knee surgery "which I hope will be kind to me as we Correspondent: Mrs. George Scnoenhut (Sarah children. Emily Brown). Five Corners on Palata Hill, Ely, Hazel Gardner Hicks, our class treasurer enjoys plan a canal barge trip in Oct. through the wine and VT 05044 collecting our dues and having the books balanced chateau country of France. and thus keeping in touch. She and George are off to Margretta Briggs Noble plans to visit both FL in April and Annapolis in May for grandson's daughters in CA this spring and return home via A marvelous 50th reunion was planned for graduation and wedding-all in the same day. He is Hawaii. Last summer she enjoyed a visit with Dot 29 Davenport Voorhees and Ralph at the Thousand us by co-chairmen, Flora (Pat) Hme Myers daughter Jane's ('55) eldest. Island home. and Elizabeth (Betty) Kane Marshall. Janet Boomer Mildred Rogoff Angell and David summered in a Dorothy Davenport Voorhees and Ralph returned Barnard wound up her successful term as president. nephew's villa in a northern Italian hill town and missed all of you and had a not-so-silent toast to the We elected the following new officers to see us off to witnessed the Palio, a 15th century horse race in class on the big day." She has been reading and pro- a fine start on our second half century as alumnae: Sienna where they met Sarah Guiou Fisher '42 who ductive digging in her genealogy. Spurred on by a pres., Frances Wells Vroom; V.P., Margaret Bur- is at the American Embassy. Jan. found them in Long course at a local college, Somers is fascinated with roughs Kohr; secy., Mary Walsh Gamache; treas., Boat Key, FL where Millie and Abbie Kelsey Baker the idea of completing the family tree which raises the Verne Hall. Elizabeth (Bibbo) Riley Whitman will enjoyed a mini-reunion. Daughter Judie's 5th pre- possibilities of trips afield-Canada, Scotland, pos- continue as our class agent and Elizabeth (Zeke) teen novel was put on the Nan. Library Assn. most sibly Holland. Speirs will report our news. prestigious list. Daughter Janice is with Distar Read- Ernestine Crone Doan endured the NH winter. Forty-one of us and 19 husbands returned to truly ing System. Husband Dan's most recent book, Fitness Programs pick up where we left off, chat unendingly with Estelle (List) Harmon Pardee is back to normal for Hikers and Cross Country Skiers, is doing fine. cherished friends, visit with old faculty (especially after a long bout with a sprained ankle and two Daughter, Ruth MacDougal, has published her 6th Miss Brett and Miss Oakes at our class dinner in months coping with a walker. novel while daughter Penelope has gone back to the Harris Refectory), re-discover our "Sea Witch" Edith (Bugs) Cloyes MclIwaine (whose son John land on a farm near Bangor, ME. Ernie enjoyed Edna mascot due to the detective work of Fran Vroom, go was transferred to Washington from Boston), KeUey's summer visit full of reunion news and class on a walk through Bolleswood, etc. We did miss a few Cordelia Kilbourne Johnson (who finds FL com- mementos. things like going to Ocean Beach, attending classes pletely new and leisurely), and Reba Coe Ehlers Eleanor Wood Frazer and Ed were in England dur- (they were over), and certainly we missed seeing spent a week with Abbie Kelsey Baker in FL. Among ing our 50th. Woodie notes, "I'm grateful that my absent classmates. Some like Elizabeth (Betty) those seen at this lime were Martha (Mickey) Webb health made it possible for Ed and me to go to our Williams Morton who came in a wheelchair outdid Dumdey and Lou, Parkie McCombs '25, Frances 1974 reunion. It's a memory I hang on to." They themselves. Brett en route from Jamaica, Constance Jones '31, spend Feb. in Naples, FL as did Kinky and John Hellie made the lovely posters for our doors and the Margaret McKay Rieth and Bill and Isabelle (Sis) Quebman. While the men played golf, the gals "pored place cards at our dinner where Grace (Beth) Houston Bartlett Hogue '32. over the class picture trying to identify all." Murch was our able song leader. Zeke made the Karla Heurich Harrison entertained Deborah Adelaide (Kinky) King Quebman describes a sur- purple and gold nosegays. Husbands were unendingly Lippincott Currier in Feb. for much too short a visit. prise Christmas package from son Jack and wife for helpful, driving us here and there and helping with A Mar. luncheon for Abbie, Bugs, Cordie and Reba a fun weekend in nearby Boston, bunking at the luggage. One of them was heard to remark he would included much reminiscing as they shelled on the Sheraton, dining at the Top of the Hub, taking to~rs never have believed how much fun a reunion could be beach. Both Karla and Abbie represented '28 at a all over the city and some of the suburbs, attending and thought he'd try one of his own next year! At least two splinter groups could not bear to call it luncheon meeting of the FL West Coast CC Alumni the Boston Symphony. presided over by Parkie McCombs '25. Karla found quits; they went on to further reuning parties. We time to arrange flowers for the annual Ikebana ex- were sorry so many wanted so much to be with us at hibition, to ready her home for her part of the Museum c.c. but couldn't, but we enjoyed getting the news Tour of Houses, to superintend the decorating for the OCTOBER in your letters. Hospital Chintz Ball. and to prepare for the descent Alberta Boardman Truex has moved to Braden- of 7 children and grandchildren on their spring ton, FL. vacation. Elizabeth Lanctot's niece will attend c.c. in the Virginia Hawkins Perrine's bad back has improved fall. enough to enable her to visit Pete who is in a fine We regret to inform you of the death of Erin Morris nursing home. and of the husband of Carolyn Terry Baker. Catherine (Dill) Page McNutt sent word in late '78, Correspondent: E. Elizabeth Speirs, 40 Avery "Now in Leningrad, next Moscow, then home. The Heights, Hanford, CT 06106 [ron Curtain rusted before we reached the border. No delay." 5 Beatrice Lord: "My heart and thoughts were with Plans are underway for our 50th reunion and you all reunion weekend. If I could have taken a 3 0 the committee has been named: Frances whirlybird I'd have come but the ride covered too Brooks Foster, pres.; Elizabeth Bahney Mills, v.p. many hours." A spring bus trip to the Brandywine and reunion chairman; Lillian Miller, treas.; Eleanor Valley with a friend was in the offing. Tyler, class agent; Norma George Murray, cor- Marjory Jones, a member of the Mystic Seaport,

23 responding sec.; Louisa Kent, Constance Green been a delegate to the state and national conventions Louise Bunce Warner and husband are Freeman and Elizabeth Edwards Spencer, members- and to the international in Scotland. 3 2 living in FL. Her husband still designs at-large. Helen Oakley Rockhold and husband are still in the yachts. Their son lives in Vero Beach and their Edith Allen MacDiarmid's card came too late for practice of Christian Science, have lived in NM for daughter and family in Doranelle, GA. They had a our last column. She had just returned from a trip to two years. Daughter Carol and family live in NH and visit with Ginnie Yancy Sanford '31 who married Asia, visiting Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan son Alan and family in CA. eight years ago after being a widow for years .. and India. In May she and Isabel Gilbert Greenwood Marion Ransom spent 10 days over the Thanks- Ruth Raymond Gay sold her house in CT and had their long anticipated get-together. giving holiday with her niece and family, dividing the bought a ranch house in Jaffrey, NH. They plan to Mary Clauss Gescheider was widowed in July '76 time between Deerfield Beach and Pompano. stay in Lake Wales, FL, until April. and now lives near her daughter in Concord, MA. Edna Whitehead Gibson just returned from three Dorothy Hill Belisle and her husband will visit Mary does volunteer work in the public schools, weeks in Guadalajara where she enjoyed the sun but Cozame! before leaving for FL. She does hospital works in the Concord museum gift shop and once or wished her Spanish were more comprehensive. volunteer work, plays bridge, goes fishing and beach- twice a year visits her son, a professor at Hamilton Frances Brooks Foster says Frank keeps busy ing. College. running a rheumatology consultation service two Lois Richmond Baldwin enjoys CA and retirement. Constance Smith Langtry's '78 highlight was an mornings a week. Robin, C.c. '61, has been chair- She has found AAUW rewarding and a good way to AARP trip to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and USSR man of the school volunteers of Worcester and is now meet people. with husband Alec and Theodosia (Teddy) Hewlett nan. chairman of school volunteers. Whitney is in NY Sylvia Hendel Irwin and husband are fine. Their Stickney '26. In Leningrad they met four relatives of with the U.N. development program. He is repre- oldest grandsons are now at Milton Academy and Alec and had the experience of wann Russian hos- sentative for Egypt and South Yemen. Andover. Their son heads the Pulmonary Dept. at pitality in a typical tiny apartment. Ruth Ferguson plans a trip to Australia and New the U. of MA med school. They plan a trip to the Elizabeth Avery Hen's retired husband has been Zealand with stops at Tahiti and Fiji in Oct. Middle East this summer with their son, daughter serving as interim pastor in the St. Lawrence valley Ernestine Vincent Venner and husband celebrated and their families. and spending weekdays at home in Elizabethtown, their 47th anniversary. They spent the winter in Del- Mary Scott Cox and husband stay busy with en- not far from Lake Placid. ray, and on their way home stopped to see son Bob and vironmental matters. The rumbling approach of a Ruth Barry Hildebrandt spent time in FL in Feb. family. nuclear plant has aroused their fellow islanders. and was to take her lti-year-old granddaughter to I, Norma George Murray, find life never dull. In Their newest grandchild was named Ananda, mean- England over spring vacation. Oct. I stepped inside a pharmacy just as the druggist ing bliss. Katy, the older of two daughters, teaches Evelyn Utley Keeler looked forward to meeting was about to lock the door at gunpoint. Iwas put face in Brazilia and carves in stone. Mary and her family some friends flying up from TN to attend the King down on the floor and handcuffed. After the holdup moved from Victoria to the interior of Be and enjoy Tut exhibit with her. man cleaned out the store of drugs and money, he took its fierce winter. Frank and Tom with their families Elizabeth Weed Johnson spent a fireside winter in my purse and fired a warning shot which missed us by live nearby. Stonington. Three deer were regular visitors and inches. He was seen running out, a description given Drusilla Fielding Stemper retired from Bowdoin raccoons formed a bread line every night. Elizabeth to the police, and he was picked up in less than an in June '77. In Sept. '78, she married Herman Stemper and husband hope to make their annual trip to Canada hour. My purse was recovered intact but I was not and moved to FL where her husband is recovering this summer in spite of the energy crunch. allowed to touch it, not even to take my car keys or from hospitalization. They look forward to a Car- Dorothy BarreU Janssen sold her house and moved driver's license. The man is now in state prison. ribbean wedding cruise. to an apartment. She keeps busy with traveling and Our class extends to Marion Ransom sincere thanks Don and Hortense Alderman Cooke vacation near her 15 grandchildren. She recently saw Fanny Young for the many years she served as class treasurer. them in New Harbor each summer. Sawyer and had heard that not long ago Constance The class of '30 extends its sympathy to Mildred Elynore (Teddy) Schneider Welsh writes that past Green Freeman broke both wrists. Meyer Doran whose husband died Jan. 4. years have included travel to Japan, Romania, Ger- Ruth Harrison Street expected a visit from Helene Correspondent: Mrs. O.H. Murray (Norma many and Austria. She's just back from Antigua Somers Smith and her husband. Helene is pres. George), 5580 Green Tree Cr., New Berlin, WI where she met Vivien Noble Wakeman '31 and her of the Garden City, NY chapter of AAUW and has 53/5/ husband on the beach. She enjoys retirement and is active in the drama and collector's depts. at the Woman's Club. She volunteers at the Montclair Museum. She has four grandsons, the oldest in the Army stationed in Germany; daughter in FL; one son nearby; the other in Boulder. Eleanor Sherman Vincent's three sons are married. They have two grandchildren. Her husband has been retired for nine years. Ruth Baylis Toaz and husband Bob are grandparents. Our daughter Barbara had a daughter, Ellen Carter Van Scoyoc, in Boston Jan. 18. Correspondent. Mrs. Robert Toaz {Ruth Baylis), 35 Sammis St., Huntington, NY fl743

THE AT-HOMERS. 34 Emily Benedict Halverson, collector of paper weights, writes that the annual seminar at Corning Glass was fantastic. She met collectors from all over the world and learned a lot. Serena Blodge" Mowry is teaching a zs-year-old to read as part of a literacy volunteer program, and heats her house with wood as part of "energy cum physical fitness program." . Marion Bogart Holtzman and George baby-sat 10 NJ during April after a good winter in FL. Elizabeth Cassel Chayet, now back in France, hopes her granddaughter might some day be an exchange student at c.C.-optimistic as the child is 7. The winner of the 1979 Agnes Berkeley Leahy Alumnae Award is Ann Crocker Elizabeth Flanders McNellis hopes to attend reunion despite being plagued with arthritis. Wheeler '34, whose accomplishments are dazzling in their variety. An English Ernestine Herman Katz's Morrie sent photos of son major, she earned an R.N. at Children's Hospital in Boston, entered the U.S. Army Michael's two children. Ernie would have been a very Nurse Corps and saw duty in both the Atlantic and Pacific in World War II. She's proud grandma. taught nursing in New London, been registrar and dean of women at Stoneleigh Helen Lavietes Krosnick's "rejuvenation" program includes volunteer tutoring of 4th graders with Junior College and now works and lectures in a plant nursery. Andy Wheeler has problems, and studying the Napoleonic era at Dart- served the Alumni Association in an array of jobs, from director-at-large to class mouth's Alumni College this summer. correspondent. Shown above presenting Oakes Ames with 1934's reunion gift, she Ruth Lister Davis sent a snapshot for our Red is also a class agent. Scrapbook to be on display at reunion. $0 did Lucile (Lucy) Austin Cutler, Alison Rush Roberts, Margaret Worthy Arnold, Marjorie Young Siegfried and

24 Miriam Young Bowman, Through my contemporary Virginia and Joseph camped while visiting friends eyes,they look just as great as in the 1934 Kotne. The in West Palm Beach. grandchildren keep them young at heart. Floyda Needham Hyde and husband Fred keep Alma Nichols' house is for sale. If she isn't too busy Did the gas crunch busy in their retirement in Port Clyde, ME. News- moving,she hopes to get to reunion. paperman, college prof., founder of Bucks County Dorothy Smith Denby has hoped to be on hand for bring your summer (PA) Community College, Fred is active in community our 45th but a major operation has topsy-turvied her organizations in ME. Floyda won recognition for plans. vacation plans to a her "Tall Ships" quilt at Port Clyde Craft Show. Millicent Waghorn Cess, still working at TRW, Dorothy Kelsey Rouse manages her and Wes' real writes enthusiastically of golf, bridge and singing halt? Join us October estate office in Southbury, CT. In June and Sept. '78 groups.Two married children live near by in southern they visited friends on Cape Cod and went with them CA. 16-24 in the Swiss to the Mt. Washington area. A granddaughter 12 Olga Wester Russell retired from teaching but and two grandsons 7 and 9 live nearby. continuesto live in Orono, ME. She'll join us in June. Josephine McKerihan Triebel and Charles live at Emily Witz Charshee says the excitement of Rancho Bernardo near San Diego. Superb weather teaching really interested pupils keeps her in the induces golfing and swimming. Their eldest son is piano world. Toby drives for the Red Cross. an attorney in Oakland; 2nd son a Naval flyer; a THE WANDERERS daughter is in Coos Bay where her husband is with Florence Baylis Skelton and Bob house sat all the Bureau of Land Management. Jo and Charles winter, 3000 ft. up the slopes of Haleakala on Maui, have 7 grandchildren. Occasionally they see Mary with magnificent view of sugar cane valleys and the Ewing Lewis in Palo Alto. Jo's also seen Selma ocean. House was complete with 2 cats, mynah bird, Leavitt Gerler and her husband twice. 2 cars, opulent garden and cleaning woman. Alys Griswold Haman has seen Frances (Dutie) Libbie Blumenthal Jacob and Seymour had an Vivian Hughes, Mary Griffin Conklin, Gertrude exhausting but fun-filled business-pleasure trip to Weyhe Dennis and Seth, and Sheila Caffrey Braucher Europe last fall. and Warren. Betty Hershey Lutz talked with Mary Lou Hays Josephine Bygate Rolfe and Andy have a condo- Ferguson in Washington- and expected to see her in minium in Vera Beach, FL. They return in spring to Palm Beach in April. Fairfield, CT. Eleanor Hine Kranz and Red explored Venice, Ips. Ruth Norton Kuhl and Bob of Scarsdale, now re- Greece,Turkey and Sicily in April. tired, had a trip to Portugal and keep busy with visits Jeanne Hunter Ingham and George found a touch from two daughters and grandchildren. Barbara of spring in New Orleans and Houston in Mar., re- vance. She tutors privately and sells Unicef cards. lives in Scotland, Karen in VT. Norty visited Anne I am the only classmate who has ever looked her up turned to CT chill. Anderson Thompson recently. when in Germany and she was delighted to see Bob Mary Lou Mercer Coburn spent the winter in St. Elizabeth (lib) Myers Parish and husband John and me. In Feb. Ruta visited an old classmate in Maarten. Then it was "April in Paris" when she winter in Naples, FL, but return to MN summers. visited granddaughter, a junior at Colby College Vienna. They have four married children, three living in Twin Amy (Tel') McNutt McNeel spends half her time studying at Sorbonne. Second daughter win have Cities area and one in West Hartford, and II grand- planning tours and advertising at her travel agency. lSthreunion at C.C. children. John retired in 1972 as a v.p. and director In May '78 she and Bill took a trip to Europe, then saw Edith Mitchell, retiredly busy, spent Christmas of the 51. Paul Ins. Cos. As a volunteer International son Douglas graduate from law school in VA. He and withsister in FL. Commissioner of the Boy Scouts, under the auspices his wife as well as daughter Neel, her husband, and Grace Nichols Rhodes grandmothered in CA of the State Dept., he and Zib have traveled around 3 little girls live in San Antonio. Tex does some during Mar. and April and was busy compiling our the world. They were entertained by royalty as well volunteer work, swims daily, has a vegetable garden statistics for class meeting. Emily Smith was equally as in the poorest of hovels. Their granddaughter was busycoping with a summary of our "opinion poll." and has a ball in the kitchen. accepted at c.c. and two nieces graduated from there. Gretchen Schwan Barber and Cornelius took 16 Gladys Russell Munroe and Lamar visited oldest months to ready their "palace" in Ohio to sell, then Elizabeth (Parse) Parsons Lehman and husband daughter at Ft. McPherson in Atlanta last fall. Son- sold it in 9 days. They moved to Colorado Springs moved back to New England to a 1778 Vt. farmhouse in-lawis an army engineer. There are four grandsons. which they've been fixing during vacations. They Jean Stanley Dise and Preston spent the holidays last fall. Mary Beattie Harmon and husband John moved have four children, 9 grandchildren living in MA, in Hudson, NH with daughter. NY and CO. Elizabeth Waterman Hunter flew to England and to Fort Worth. Dorothy Barbour Siavich entered three water- Marjorie (Midge) Maas Haber keeps busy in NYC. Ireland in April. color paintings at the second alumni exhibition Elizabeth Davis Pierson, because of ill health, gave Miriam Young Bowman saw Rebecca Nims Tro- c.c. Sept. 29-0ct. 27 at Cummings Arts Center. Dottie up her job last faU, feels better now and planned on land '33, a c.c. roommate, and the campus last fall. has had classes at the U. of IL and yearly workshops Cozumel, Mex. with her husband last March. Daughter Sarah is married to an attorney in Edin- in ME, including the Rangemark master class in Agatha McGuire Daghlian and Philip had their burgh; Jane is in Phoenix; son is an attorney in Birch Harbor. She has exhibited in Lubbock, TX and son and grandson from CT visit last Christmas and Houston. Mim met Pres. Ames in Phoenix liked him Baton Rouge and many galleries near Champaign, all enjoyed many of his friends home for the holidays. verymuch. ' Ag often sees c.c. decals on cars in town (Blooming- Ceda Zeissett Libulzke and Fred sailed to So. IL Shirley Durr Hammersten's and Ham's daughter ton, IN). Often they belong to a male grad student Africa in Oct. That voyage lasted 67 days instead of Linnea and her husband live near them in Falmouth. working in various depts. at U. of IN. expected.45. For April and May they are aboard an- Son Paul lives in Chatham and works at the May Jean Rothschild Cole and Lewis of Louisville, KY other freighter, reputedly bound for Chile. lost. for autistic children. Last year Themey's and took a cargo ship from SF to Micronesia for six weeks Your correspondent switched from day laborer at Ham's apartment in Mallorca was right on the last Feb. On returning they saw son David's family a nursery to nurse this spring when my husband was Mediterranean. Shirley talked on the phone with in LA. They had previously dismantled Jean's badly.injured in car accident. An April vacation in Lois Ryman Areson and Jeanette Stahl Wallins when mother-in-law's apartment of almost 90 years' trea- TN Withdaughter and her family speeded recovery. both came to the Cape last summer. sures. The class extends deepest sympathy to the family Margaret Burgess Hoy works part time at a hotel Evelyn Kelly Head and Ray go to St. Thomas each of Mary Lou Ellis Dunn, who died of cancer in Nov. in Boca Raton at the desk and switchboard. She en- winter for six weeks. When home she does volunteer Her husband wrote that all the family were with her joys china painting and is going to genealogy class. library work in Dennis, Cape Cod. at Thanksgiving and "she was at peace then and is Frank enjoys shuffleboard. They became grand- Lois (Ry) Ryman Areson's and husband's #3 son nowat peace with the world." parents again, another daughter to son John and Peter started med school at Tufts, having switched Correspondent: Mrs. J. Arthur Wheeler Jr. (Ann wife. John enjoys sailing and races with friends from interests from engineering. Crocker), Box 18/, Westport Pt., MA 0279/ the Miami range to the Upper Keys. He skis in CO. Bianca Newell Stebbins and husband Robert Peg and Frank saw your correspondent in passing took a trip to the British Isles in the summer of '78. through Delray Beach last winter. She heard from Harriet Hastorf Griffen that she and Howard were enjoying golf and gardening in Jupiter, Arline Goettler Stoughton and Bob visited Jane Wyckoff Bishop and husband Homer moved 36 to Fort Myers, FL where they bought a condominium. FL and Rosemary Hunter Lembeck and Paul took . Austria and Munich last faU and reuned the QE II to Europe. Rosie plays golf and bridge and ~lth Gerutha (Ruta) Kempe Knote in Oct. Ruta lives They joined Myer Lee golf and country club where does yoga. m Bayreuth, West Germany, with her husband, both Bud plays golf. Jane loves to fish at Sanibel Island. Margaret Morehouse Kellogg and Duane of Mari Sproat Fisk and her sister took a trip in June ~etlTedteachers.They have a son Peter 39 in the Army '78 to the Cape and Martha's Vineyard. Her daughter m Germany. Their daughter Christine (Christel) Bethel, VT have seven grandchildren. Virginia Bowen Wilcox retired in June '78 but they Judy moved from NJ to NY state close to Mari. Since 37 has a daughter Narascba II Y.i and lives in Munich. the other daughter lived closer, they see each other Ruta welcomes any class member to Bayreuth, her have no more time than before. Daughter Cathy finished her master's and started doctoral work in frequently. Having retired in '76 Mari is active in home, and will get tickets for the world-famous church activities, bridge, day trips etc. She said Wagnerfestival as long as she knows 9 months in ad- nutrition. Son Ben is producer of Capitol Report.

25 Elva (Happy) Bobst Link recovered from the flu had just moved into her new house in VA which she She was a job and management analyst for USN, and her husband from a heart attack. Both are re- was painting, inside and out, by herself. On t~e CG, Army, FAA. last and best assignment was at tired. They took a trip to Newfoundland in July '78. farm she bought 10 years ago, she has one mare In Ft. Huachuca. She now lives 5000 ft. high between As Hap's parents are both in nursing homes, she's foal, one yearling colt pius a dog and a cat. Her daugh- the Mule and Huachuca Mts., near the Mexican busy visiting. ter Ann and family live in the area; also her youngest border. Son George is operations research analyst Caroline Stewart Eaton (Mrs. Robert) reports son Chris. Carol's oldest son Andy and his family, and daughter Madeleine a reference librarian at Fl. husband very busy as dean at Nichols College, train- along with her 93-year-old Dad spent Thanksgiving Huachuca. Fran is treasurer of Huachuca Audubon ing an assistant to replace him in preparation for a with her on the farm. Society. She farms 10 acres, is learning Spanish, 1980 retirement. They commute between Wolfboro, Helen Pearson Fowler and children spent Christ- hunting gems, slicing and polishing cabochons, NH in winter and Guilford, CT in summer. Their mas with her sister in Denver. making silver jewelry. She hopes to make it back East son, daughter and granddaughter are not far from Elizabeth Fielding has to puppy-sit her sister's for 1980. them. poodle for four months. Suzanne Spinney Raymond found two classmates Barbara McLeod bought a house in Brewster, Dorothea Bartlett is considering early retirement. in FL last year: Bessie Knowlton Tyler who agreed Cape Cod, and spent most of last summer there. Frances Willson Russell was readying for the with Sue that neither one had changed and Isabel Elizabeth Reukauf moved from PA to Coronado, holiday parties when she sent a card. Scott McConnell with whom Suzanne spent Thanks- CA; Janet Reinheimer Barton to Ridgewood, NJ and Selma (Sally) Kingsdale Lewenberg's youngest son giving on the FL west coast. Bette Andrews York from Wallingford to North Roger was married in June. Sally has 7 grandchildren. Calista Jayne Hillman and husband live in the DC Haven, CT Sherry Clark Bryant and Alan returned stateside area since her husband's retirement from the Army. Ruth Chittim Eufemia and Frank, daughter, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Whispering Pines, Ne. To Rolfe does some work for the 80M Corp. Son Rolfe granddaughter, and sister flew to FL. in Mar. for a move from a 7-room house with servants to a IO-room III works at the Dept. of Labor and daughter Calista week, visiting Disney World and Ruth's brother and house and just the two of them as "staff" was quite a Lynn is a graduate of the U. of AZ. wife. change. Alan Jr. had a son and Betsy had a girl. In Frances Sears Baratz has been teaching home Miriam (Mim) Everett Macurda serves as a trustee Boston, they dedicated a mobile detection unit for economics for 19 years and recently added career of the Concord, NH hospital. diabetes which was given by Sherry's cousin. She education and sex education. She is active in the Delta Janet Alexander McGeorge and husband are both and Alan unveiled the plaque in her memory and Kappa Gamma teachers' organization. Since her involved in Mill Valley, CA affairs. Sherry addressed a sizable gathering at Boston City husband Bill's death six years ago, she has done a lot Marion Pendleton Obenhaus of Chicago was Hall Plaza. Sherry had a phone call from Ann Gilder- of traveling. Two of her sons are married and live honored at a dinner attended. by over 300 upon her sleeve Blackman when she was in Pinehurst for a in the Boston area: one in computer work and the retirement after 16 years as executive director of the golf tournament. other teaching at S.U. medical school. Her oldest son Chicago Child Care Agency. Correspondent: Mrs. William L. Sweet (M.e. is not married and lives in the New London area. Elinor Knoche Baird recovered after a winter fall Jenks), 371 West St., Needham Heights, MA 02194 Correspondent: Elizabeth Thompson Dodge on ice and visited her two daughters in the West. (Elizabeth S. Thompson), 243 Clearfield Rd., The class extends its sympathy to the family of Wethersfield, CT 06109 Gertrude E, Mehling Partington, who died April 28, 1979 in Ohio. 40 E,velyn Gilbert Thorner does a lot of business traveling with husband Mike. In the past Correspondent: Mrs. Robert W. Stoughton (Arline 42 Correspondent: Mrs. Edward E. Mack, Jr. Goeuler], 34 Cold Spring Dr., Bloomfield, CT06002 year they covered SF, Las Vegas, Louisville, Denver (June Perry), 481 Grove SI., Glencoe, and Miami. Her daughter Susan, husband Bill and 2 lL 60022 children live in Potomac, MD; Daughter Lynne, husband Richard and I child live in Tenafly, NJ; Wilhelmina Foster Reynolds and Bill have Nancy and husband Steve live in Plantation, FL. 3 8 another grandson, Marc, born in July Evie looks forward to our 40th in '80. The goodly group of our class who attended to daughter Kathie in Hartford. Daughter Sue Doris Hassell Janney helps husband Lew with 44 and relished reunion on a verdant campus is at UCLA Medical Center and works weekends for membership work at the YMCA in Phoenix. Her in lovely weather wish to thank all who worked to a group of dqctcrs in area emergency rooms. Billie is daughter Carol, married in May '78, is general make the weekend successful. Special thanks to our personnel chairman at the Children's Aid Society of manager of a restaurant. Daughter Kim works with reunion chairpersons Nancy Hotchkiss Marshall and Montgomery County. Bill, a lawyer, is pres. of Octavia the seriously handicapped and retarded. Lois Hanlon Ward. A letter on the specifics of reunion Hill Assn., a low-income housing organization. He Elizabeth Hubert Towers went back to school in will be sent to each class member. fully recovered from his hip operation of two years 1966 and obtained a degree in library science at So. Susan Marquis Ewing planned to come to reumon ago. CT State College. Betty has been running media in a car full of family photos. Winifred Nies Northcott and John's son Hal is centers in 2 schools in Newington, CT for 13 years. Elizabeth Swisher Childs hopes to return to CO director of public affairs with Ernest Willen berg in She married Stu Towers 8 years ago and lives on a when her husband retires from Texas Tech in Aug. De. Christmas was spent with daughter Heather and hilltop in Burlington, CT. She gardens, swims, travels Two reunions conflict and she will be at high school Ken in their farm house. south for short winter trips, sends out bills for class one in Ann Arbor. Son Brad is in business in Minne- Carman Palmer von Bremen and Dan spent dues and occasionally sees Eleanor English Glynn apolis; son Barry is working on Ph.D. in folklore attN Christmas with their children in NJ. and Janet Brown Theroux. u., daughter Liz, after a year of grad school in Edin- Marjorie Mintz Deitz is active at the Worcester Art Dorothy Gieg Warner still enjoys her full time burgh, is working toward an M.A. in art history. Libby, Museum. During the Christmas season she worked job as an elementary school secretary. Daughter sick of winter, wants to go somewhere hot and build at two stores at the mall. Ted is recovering very well Ellen married Lt. Robert Gentner USN Air Force a solar house. from his coronary in Aug. and plays tennis three times last summer in San Antonio, TX. Dorothy and hus- Karla Yepsen Copithorn's daughter Tina married a week. They will spend five weeks in Ft. lauderdale band Lea drove down from PA and after the wedding Knut D. Gronsdal in July '78 in Bergen, Norway. to avoid our New England cold spell. visited New Orleans and Atlanta. They became in- Karla and Rhodes attended and loved Kmn's family, Anne (Nance) Darling Hwoschinsky's association stant grandparents to two granddaughters. Son Tat friends, and beautiful Norway. In Jan. granddaughter with the rejuvenation of Delaware Park in Buffalo is asst. editor of a local newspaper and his wife Lindsey was born to Rip and Janice of Manassas, goes back many years. She is on a committee drawing Cathie is a music teacher in the junior high school. VA. Now readying their house for sale, Karla and up plans for the next 20 years of Buffalo's parks. In Dorothy's husband does consultant work, teaching Rhodes look for leads to an apple orchard on the Dec. she chaired a committee designing a park for and lecturing. eastern seaboard. crippled children. Katharine Gilbert Smith saw Aimee Hunnicutt Mary Melville Heron expects to be at reunion after Winifred Frank Havell and Dick's Christmas was Mason in FL last winter. Aimee teaches philosophy a trip to Great Britain, her first in 20 years, to visit her rather mixed up with one granddaughter arriving be- at a FL university and was the only woman invited to aunts and a "slew of 2nd cousins I have never seen." fore Christmas, her parents and brother later. Bruce the Collegium Phenomenologicum in Perugia, Helen Crawford Tracy's three sons are out of was home for both Christmas and New Year's. Nancy Italy, last year. Kathie and husband are hunting for college and self supporting. Grandchildren are de- arrived on New Year's from a junior college near a permanent base in FL. lightful. Helen serves as a hospital ward clerk in the Mill Valley where she is studying textile restoration. Catherine (Billie) Klink McGibbon and her partial- summer, as a substitute teacher the rest of the year. It was the first time in 9 years that the whole family ly retired lawyer husband spent 10 winters in the Had a trip East in Oct. Saw Sally Church Paynter who was together. perfect climate of Guadalajara, Mex. Now they win- hosted an Emily Abbey reunion potluck. Anne Davis Helen Maxwell Schuster and Jim worked hard this ter on their ranch near Tucson. Their son with his Heaton was there. Saw Jane Day Hooker in New fall for the successful elections of Bill Armstrong for wife and 2 children, Heather and Andrew, runs the Haven. U.S. Senate and Ken Kramer for House of Rep. from ranch. Younger daughter Bonnie is a travel agent Sally Church Payntar wrote of the visits of Helen CO. Helen was lucky in several golf tournaments. manager in Tucson. Daughter Jean, a teacher, lives and Bill and of Ann and Gordon and of the potluck. She handled advertising for the Assistance League's in Barrington, Il with her children. "Ed and I still She had another such gathering three years ago. fund-raiser to help supply clothing for needy school fly our own plane and I've had 4 articles published in Sally Stewart Dill Parker's husband Jack died in children. Son Bill and wife Sue left for a 3-year tour the e.S. Monitor." Billie and husband traveled in 1971 and in 1973 she married a widower who, with in Okinawa. Son Jimmie and his family came to CO Africa, S. America and Europe and throughout the his wife, had been their best friends in TX 1948-54. from VT for the holidays. Southwest. "It has been such a happy marriage for us both." Carol Moore Kepler was sorry to miss reunion but Frances Baratz MacNeil retired after 23 years. Sally finds the practice of Christian Science exciting

26 and rewarding. Son Stewart, grad of Princeton and Oxford, writes for the Christian Science Monitor; had an article on Alaska in a recent Atlantic Monthly under the by-line Stewart Din McBride. Leslie teaches in a private school in Old Greenwich and sings. Laurie, grad of U. of WA, studying dance in NYC. Virginia Weber Marion, arthritis under control at last, reports life routine, a few classes to learn something new and part-time work in medical records. She has 4 grandchildren, 3 children married, 4th child a determined bachelor at 26. Punch approaches 60,so they plan to travel and spend more time at their FL home. Christine Ferguson Salmon: "At last a wedding- Bill Salmon and Diane Centore in Apr. '78 in NJ." Chris visited at Christmas. She is wildly busy, having added the manufacture of threads, Christopher Needlepoint Meialics. to the distribution of art needleworksupplies. Doris Campbell Safford's nephew Pat Goodwin is a freshman at c.c. Daughter Leslie is an editor at Doubleday in NYC. Son Charlie is a social worker in MA. Dody keeps in shape shoveling snow and is active in two church guilds and as class reporter for Emma Willard. She writes a lot and is making an oriental rug. Millie Romney Odell and Bob have 9 children including both families and 5 grandchildren. Clan is With a firm handshake, Elizabeth Murphy Whelan '65 accepted the Connecticut all in CA lit the moment. Cookie does volunteer work; College Medal from President Ames during graduation ceremonies May 27th. Bob is in real estate and both enjoy travel. They love Since her own graduation, Dr. Whelan has written 11 books and 100 articles in the their town, Sonora, in the gold country of the Sierra fields of public health, nutrition education and epidemiology, including an article foothills. Norma Pike Taft's son Stephen Pike Taft married on parenthood decisions for the last issue of this magazine. She is executive direc- Barbara Joan Mayrsohn on Nov. 25. Nat and Norma tor of the American Council on Science and Health, an organization formed in remain active in their temple, vacationed in Scotts- June 1978 to review the health benefits and risks associated with certain chemicals, dale, and enjoyed the 30th reunion of Nat's Harvard working conditions and lifestyles. The Council has spoken out on such controver- lawschool class. Elinor Houston Oberlin and Dave had their first sial issues as cancer rates in the United States, saccharin, tobacco and cancer, and real vacation in years in Nassau plus a week in the pesticides. Thousand Islands. They anticipate a working trip to A sociology major at Connecticut, Dr. Whelan earned her doctor of science in Japan. Ellie, plus five other women artists, worked population sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health and holds master's on pottery and sculpture for a show. Marion Kane Witter has a grandson, Brewster from both Harvard and Yale. She writes regularly for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Boyd,Jr. who unfortunately lives in Denver. George Barron's and Cancer News and is a contributing editor of American Baby Maga- is a senior at Salisbury School and his friends keep zine. Dr. Whelan and her husband Stephen, who is an attorney, live in New York them busy at tennis, paddle tennis and golf. City with their daughter Christine. Barbara Jones Alling's parents, in their 80's, drove from FL to spend the summer with her. Barbara re- The 391 graduating seniors and their families also saw the Connecticut College signed from teaching. She enjoyed a three-week Medal awarded to President Emeritus Charles E. Shain and to William E. S. Gris- cruise on their cabin sailboat. wold, former chairman of the board of trustees. Constance Geraghty Adams wrote of a mini- reunion at c.c. Alumni Council with Nancy (Rusty) Grosvenor English, Lois Hanlon Ward and Nancy is in 2nd year of seminary in Columbia, S'C. Drew 19 48 Jean M, Handley made headlines in the New Hotchkiss Marshall. Haven Register when the 107-year-old is at Hanover College. Jean Loomis Hendrickson keeps busy as pres. 01 Quinnipiack Club accepted her as its first female the Seattle chapter of the Internat!. Assn. of Cancer Anne Davis Heaton and Gordon had such fun at member. The club is near her SNET office and, ac- Victimsand Friends. "We have good speakers and his 35th reunion at Wesleyan in June '78 that Anne cording to Jean, is "a good place for business lun- try to promote good nutrition to prevent cancer and really looked forward to the weekend in New London. Jean Leinbach Breitinger and Anne both left cheons:' The Register interviewed Jean and reported aU degenerative diseases. I first had cancer surgery that "Miss Handley gave no indication she is trying Jan. '52; so that's how I got interested in this." Son college after sophomore year to be married and both to be a trailblazer for women's rights." It took 60 days Chris finished Ph.D. at MIT in civil engineering, is are returning for their first reunion. Jean's husband Bill died May 27, '78, five years after a massive and a vote of the entire membership, but the club's now ass't prof. at Carnegie Mellon U. Hal is senior board of governors did vote to admit women. Hurrah engineeringsupervisor at Boeing. stroke. The class extends sympathy to her. for our low-key Jean! Jane Bridgwater Hewes had a great vacation with Ethel Sproul Felts, after the death of her mother Passeyand Oakie at a ranch in WY. Pass has made in Dec. '78, visits often in NJ from FL, helping her Nathalie Kroll Lobe and Bernie, a Baltimore CPA converts to ranch life of Bridget and Bill. Puck and father who is doing well despite deafness. Ethel's "have defied probability and stayed married" for 25 ~eorge Tift stopped on their way to HI to take a dive many interests include the Coalition for Arms limita- years. Nat works for the Dept. of Energy in DC, m son-in-Iaw'ssub. tion and Survival, the U.N. Assn. Church Women having pursued a career in economics and urban Jane Day Hooker: "Our 8 children are scattered United, the Haitian Refugee Center and the Council planning, and travels often. Their children are ~romThailand, Spain, CA, Chicago, TX to a couple for Internat!. Visitors. She plans a second cruise to Annabel 24, Hank 20 and Josh 17. the Berry Islands, 80 miles beyond Bimini. Son III ME and CT. We gathered in ME for Thanksgiving Carolyn Blocker Lane wrote and illustrated an- and Chicago for Christmas. Am in touch with Strat- St.ephen returned to Miami, Jan and family raise other children's book, Princess, which will be ton. Saw Mac Cox and had a good visit with Helen hogs in IN, and Bar's family is in Ontario. published in the fall. Last April, her play, World of Crawford Tracy." The class extends its deep sympathy to the the Brothers Grimm, was published. Her son Jay 13 Lois Webster Ricklin and Saul travel worldwide family of Eleanor Townsend Crawley (Mrs. Joseph directed Huckleberry Finn, a children's musical, in with increasing frequencyc-e trips to Japan 4 to J.) who died in '78. Poughkeepsie near their home in Salt Point. USS~, many more to Europe, a grand tour' of S. Co-correspondents: Mrs. Neil D. Josephson (Elise Abrahams), 11 Indian Trail, Vernon, CT Barbara Freedman Berg graduated summa cum Amenta. Their other interests are in art, theater, laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA in 1977.She's planu, tennis. They began hiking. Daughter Leslie 06066; Mrs. George H. Weller (Alice Carey), 413 Clifton Blvd., East Lansing, M148813 doing grad work in modern European history. IS working for her M.A. at RI School of Design. The Rev. Carol Paradise Decker is the first female Young~st.ofthree sons is in 2nd year at RPI. Protestant minister at the Interfaith Center of the . MarJone Geupel Mwray still teaches needlepoint U. of Bridgeport (CT). Ordained in the Methodist l~ her home-27 pupils now. Son Lee 32, a hematolo- Correspondent: Mrs. Muriel E. Shaw (Muriel 46 Evans), /37 Manchesler St., Nashua, NH ministry in 1976, she received a master's from gist a.nd oncologist in Oklahoma City, married Yale Divinity School in 1977. Georgia Thomas, an internist in June '78. Keith 27 03060

27 Carol Hulsapple Femow has been a medical care Diane Roberts Gibson is pleased to report her football, hockey and lacrosse. analyst for five years, is married to a refinery design daughter Nancy at Cc., class of '82-loving it and Julie Spencer Porter had a book published by engineer in London and has three children. She is interested in art and writing. Twin Duncan attends Watkins in London, The Frog Child. The publisher the former chairman of the Board of Health in Colby with interests in history and golf. Diane is calls it "a spiritual journey with Woman as Hero." Greenwich, CT. basketball and baseball secy. at the Eastern Athletic Julia says it could also be called a myth or fairy tale, Correspondent: E. V.M. Baptie (Elizabeth Morse), Conf. almost suitable for children. 228f Ridge Rd., North Haven, CT06473 Lois Papa Dudley, after 20 years in volunteer Eleanor Wood Flavell's daughter Beth was mar- sector, entered the real estate business as sales as- ried last summer and goes to social work school. Son sociate. Marshall Jr. is a junior at Trinity, Liz a high Jim attends Bates, looks forward to junior year in 49 The class of '49 returned to New London 115 school senior and Matthew in 8th grade. Lois serves France. Eleanor is a half-time research assistant and strong, including 25 husbands. Mary as pres. of Guilford Community Fund and Home- spends two afternoons a week at Sr. Day Care Center. Stecher Douthit not only got out the class, the reunion maker Home Health Aide Service and as treas. of the She loves both jobs, finding that testing 3-year-olds news and pictures, but masterfully coordinated a Library Board. in the morning and 80-year-olds in the afternoon series of memorable weekend events. We started Jane Keeler Hawes finds St. Croix as beautiful as gives life poignant variety. Husband John loves with a delicious Chinese dinner, complete with wine ever. The Haweses spent three weeks in the States teaching at Stanford. served to '4gers by Hal Douthit in the role of perfect this fall, part of the visit in Boston with two youngest Doris Drisler Ferguson, after IVi years full-time as host. Then we witnessed the outstanding contribution daughters. Husband Charles was busy painting for a staff RN on the surgical floor of a pediatric hospital, of Estelle Parsons performing as the fiery Miss his annual one-man water color show. has switched to part-time. Two weddings last sum- Margarida. The class reception for her back at the Elizabeth Smith Shores' daughter Wendy grad- mer: daughter Fran on July I and son Art on Sept. 10. dorm provided a rare opportunity for us to talk with uated from Wells College magna cum laude and Phi Joann Stephens McKay's daughter was married Pars about her interpretation of the role and the Beta Kappa, and plans to attend grad school. Ritchie in Oct. '77 to a man with four children. "Imagine be- various audience reactions to it. She has been touring is at a business college and Debbie will attend Canton ing made a four-time grandmother in three minutes." colleges and universities with the play and came College in NY. Liz is directing a play. Older son will graduate in June from the U. of Denver directly to New London after a long trip from AK. Dorothy Warren White had two weddings in '78- Hotel and Restaurant School. Youngest is 16. Hus- Beautiful weather prevailed on Sat. for campus youngest daughter Patsy and eldest daughter Callie, band Neil and Joann visited Greece last fall and AZ touring, tennis, cook-out, Chinese art, and contained both to Scandinavians. "What else do you expect in a at Christmas. Joann recommends retirement-"so renewing of old friendships. The crowning experience state like MN?" The great flood was traumatic even much time to do fun things." of the weekend occurred when Stech, Hal and daugh- though the Whites were not personally involved. Dan Elsie Miller Palmer's daughter Betsy graduated ter Lue, C.C. '77, produced a sensational evening at has a second career as piano teacher, which she loves. from Skidmore in '77 and teaches kindergarten at the Mystic Aquarium. Featured were drinks, dancing Working with 28 students makes her days fly. Renwick School in W. Hartford where Elsie is setting and dinner as if at the bottom of the ocean, as well as a Jean McClure Blanning moved to the Hartford up a day camp program. Curtis is at Dartmouth, Jane complete aquatic show with dolphins, seals and area where Jim is associate pastor of parish care, will attend Russell Sage in the fall and Ann is a whales. West Hartford First Church of Christ Congregational. sophomore at Concord High School. It was great fun and a weekend to be remembered. Jean is coordinator of the state clearing house for Carol Raphael Sfromeyer graduates from Rutgers Again our thanks to Jane Smith Moody, Estelle Par- gifted and talented. The Bannings joined the con- this May with a B.A. in Hebraic studies. Youngest sons, Mary Lou Strassburger Treat, the Douthlts dominium crowd with a house in Talcott Glen, Farm- son Robert is in the same graduating class and they and to everyone who came from all parts of the coun- ington. Son Bill lives in Boston. Jean enjoys good have been in a lit course together. Carol teaches try. We missed our classmates who were unable to conversations with Elaine Title Lowengard. Many Hebrew four days a week. Two oldest sons Bill and make it, and hope that they will write their news to c.c. graduates attend First Church. David (recently married) are affiliated with husband Joan or me and join us in '84. Christine Holt Kurtz' daughter Christine married Norman in the auto appraisal business. Robert plans Our new class officers are: pres., Jeanne Webber last Aug. and took a leave from U. Miami (where she to help Norman in the auto body business. They go to Clark; v.p. and reunion chairman, Mildred Weber is concert master) to travel with her husband on their paradise in Thousand Islands for the summer. Whedon; secy.. Millicent Flink Jick; treas., Marion business. Sons Christopher, who attends U. Miami Ann I. Sprayregen works at NYC Community Mershon Johnson; class agent, Julia Winton Day- law school, and Brooks, a mortgage loan officer with College counseling and doing advocacy work for stu- ton; nominating committee, Mary Stecher Douthit; American Savings, are at home. Daughter Tinder 16 dents with social service agencies. Their day care class co-eorrespondents, Joan Jossen Bivin and and Virginia 15 are in high school. Christine became center flourishes despite de-funding by city, because Jennifer Judge Howes. an agent with J.c. Penney Ins. Co. and will ultimately they joined 20 other de-funded centers and obtained Co-correspondents: Mrs. H. Richard Bivin (Joan be manager of in-store operations in So. FL. a large CET A contract sponsored by the Bank 51. Jossen), f659 Crespo t»: La Jolla, CA 92073; Mrs. Mary Lou Oellers Rubenstein's daughter Nanci College of Education. A special demonstration pro- Oliver P. Howes (Jennifer Judge), 29 Maple Dr., married Steven Del Guidice, a Tufts medical student ject was awarded to show that day care centers in- Great Neck, NY 11011 12/30{78. Ellen is hurrying to finish high school a dependently managed but working together can year early in order to accompany parents to Amster- give quality care at a lower cost than other publicly Members of the classes of '49-'52: Marie-Louise dam for two semesters. Son Matthew will keep the funded centers. Burle Trotignon, a student from France who studied home fires burning and finish at Syracuse. Marie Woodbridge Thompson and family moved 10 at C.C jn 194849, will be in the U.S. from Aug. 8 to Ann Pass Gourley's Amy is a freshman at Tufts' Bethesda, MD last summer. Daughter Karen grad- Sept. 18. She's very interested in seeing her Ameri- Heidi is at Lawrence Academy. Ann's job in Skan- uates from Dartmouth in June. Craig is a resident at can friends and can be reached cio the Milton eateles, NY elementary school library keeps her busy. Peter Bent Brigham Hosp. in Boston. Marie will Academy (130 Center St., Milton, MA 02186) where complete her masters in ed counseling this summer. she's accompanying a group of French students. An Joan Pine Flash's family bought a "Samurai" English teacher at the Lycee International near Paris, 28' 19-year-old wooden sloop. For the winter the Mary Jo Mason Harris' son Ed graduated from Marie-Louise is married to a philosophy professor. Flashes can motor her up the CT River as far as Cobalt. Cornell in May and works in NYC for Chase Man- Her two older children are college students; the two Ann, the oldest, studies art in Boston and is a profes- hattan in a management training program; Rick is younger ones will be here with her. sional chef. Pamela transferred to Brown and David a freshman at Gettysburg. Husband Bob and Mary is a sophomore at Loomis-Chaffee where his father Jo finally graduated from PTA, scouts and music teaches math. Joan has volunteer projects and plays boosters. tennis. Polly Green Kemp claims husband Ed works too Julia Jackson Young and husband Ross have Sue hard doing law office things and she doesn't work living at home and working in a brokerage house; Kim hard enough at house things. Son Ken gets out of the 50 MARRIED: Emily Birdsall Johnson to at U. VA grad school; Charlotte at U. VA undergrad; army and Germany in May and will attend St. Johns Charles S. Callman 1/28{78. Betsy at U. of FL; and Jennifer at Mary Baldwin. College in Annapolis. Some Kemp kids go to col- Carol Baldwin gave the initial lecture Oct. 24 for a Julia works at the Corcoran Museum and Children's lege-some are resident kinder. series, "Meet the Artist: The Creative Process," Hospital where she serves on their boards. Ross, a Sylvia Snitkin Kreiger and husband David sailed sponsored by the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle lawyer, teaches a seminar at Washington and Lee. Hill, ME. Nter graduation Carol studied at the the British Virgin Islands and visited Israel and Egypt. They spend time on their land in S1. Michaels on the they became grandparents when Aaron Joshua Do- Corcoran Museum of Art in DC, and the Sculpture Eastern Shore of MD. bish was born to daughter Roseanne. Beth is a c.c. Center in NYC. She worked for several years at the Ruth Kaplan had two weeks in Europe followed by grad, works in day care center affiliated with Yale. Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC. In a week on an island off the coast of ME and great Steven graduates from Lehigh in May and will enter 1973 she moved to Truro and last year built a solar 4th of July and Labor Day weekends away. She can N.E. School of Optometry. Kenny is business house. Her prints are on display in the town hall. retire in five years. Ruth now works for the U.S. Fish Janet Pinney Shea and family are living overseas management major at Syracuse and Howie is a 10th and Wildlife Service. She spent a lovely afternoon grader at Hopkins. again-this time in Amman, Jordan which they find with Nancy Ford Olt whose daughter Nance is a law Nancy Kearns Morris and Jack took daughter especially interesting. With no U.S. high school student at BU. Melissa for college interviews last fall, looked for- available, the' Pinneys have one son at UNH, a Ann Gehrke Aliber and Jim celebrated their 25th ward to touring the Cc. campus. The trip included a daughter living with former neighbors and attending anniversary in Oct. '78. Tom 23 works for Chevrolet: visit to Boardy and Mary Ann Woodard Thompson, high school in VA, and a son at Northfield-Mt. Her- Sara 21 is at Duke and on varsity field hockey team: mon, Janet's alma mater. Nancy takes art classes and is church director of Bill 17, a senior at Detroit Country Day, is active in education.

28 Jeanne Wolf Yozell went on a tour to Cuba-two Jones', Irene Marcus Feuerstein',' Catherine Virginia Torrence Vibert joined the Berkshire weeks of visiting socialism at its best, in a beautiful Pappas McNamara', Barbara Rice Kashanski', Courier as a reporter. Prior to this, Ginger had co- climate. . Dianne Robinson, Joan Sllverherz Brundage', Enid published or written for several other papers. Diane Kranich Price's son Mark received a special Si"igny Gonine', Sally Stecher Hollington, Janice Amalie Hughes Montstream spent last summer commendation from Labor Dept. and judge for his Smith Post, Elizabeth Smith Brobst'. Katherine converting a house into an office for her husband's presentation of a case. Son Roger received MBA in Smith Flower, Sylvia Sternburg Spall, Ann Stros- law practice. Ami still plays the hammered dulcimer health administration from George Washington U. berg S.,.o5', Gretchen Taylor Kingman', Florence and organized a string band that plays for country Daughter Lori was first teenager accepted as a (Dudy) vers McQuilling'. Claire Wallach Engle, dances. volunteer at a child development center for normal, Nancy Weiss Klein', Kathryn White Skinner', Ann (Bonye) Fisher Norton, Howard and children disturbed and abused children. Diane's nursery Joanne Williams Hartley'. Judith Yankhauer visited Howard's family in Jamaica last summer. They'll spend 8 weeks in England and Wales this school has its largest enrollment ever. Astrove' . Correspondent: Mrs. Frank Graham (Selby Copies of our 25th Reunion Booklet are available summer. Sally Dawes Hauser's son is active in C.e. class of Inman), 6 Esworthy Terrace, Gaithersburg, MD at $2.50 from Mrs. R.F. CM. Lee Catledge) Sampson, 20760 62 Phillips Lane, Stratford CT 06497. Catch up with 1980. "He is much more extra-curricular minded our class news! than we of the old days." Anita Gurney Painter works with mentally gifted Ann Lewis Enman and husband Jim live in OR and students. She and her husband conduct summer are flight instructors. Ann's daughter Linda is a Patricia (Pat) Ahearn Berger of Rockville, tours to Europe for college students. sophomore at Texas A & M. Daughter Beth will go 52 MD, edits technical and scientific reports Polly (Pam) Maddux Harlow's husband has been there next fall. Son Jim is a sophomore in high school. for Booz-Allen. She enjoys it and "learned every- promoted to admiral. Ellen Wineman Jacobs has been in the travel thing needed for the job in Miss Oakes' freshman Ann Reagan Weeks is a program analyst for the business for 3 years and loves it. Ellen and Kenneth English class." Pat has two children in college (U. of U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. have one daughter, a sophomore at Wesleyan, and MD and Northwestern), two finished with college, Margaret MacVean Finn and Norma Hamady two sons, one in high school and one in 6th grade. and a year-old grandchild. Richards' daughters are roommates at OH Wesleyan. Jeanne Roche Hickey's son, Brian Vitelli, grad- Margaret (Robbie) Waller Griffin is taking ad- Caroline (Sid) Robertson married Cliff F. Gray of uated from Purdue and is at Purdue's vet school. vantage of her area's continuing education program Grosse Pointe. In Oct. Brian was married. with courses in literature and sight-reading for Harriet Benwit Kirschenbaum is attending Pace Judith Gregory Bowes' husband David is editor of singing. Robbie was a part-time employee of the U. towards a business degree. a new magazine, Cincinnati Queen City. Judy is Venture Theater, an amateur children's theater Carolyn Chapple Reed has sons at Princeton and pres. of the board of Planned Parenthood of Cin- group, but now volunteers there. The Griffins' twins, Kenyon. cinnati. Jamie and Peggy, are at Washington & Lee and Evelyn Connolly Meyers' eldest daughter is at- Joan Sprecher Cushman and Rufus have a daugh- Hollins College. Marlie is at Potomac School. Robbie tending LS U med school. ter at Ithaca College and a son at Deerfield Academy. often sees Wendy Hicks Coerper whose husband is Marian Goodman Rabinowitz is recapturing the Joan works as a patient account manager at a skilled about to be ordained an Episcopal priest. good and simple life on a farm in the foothills of the nursing home. Natalie Comen Rubin wrote times were hectic Blue Ridge Mountains. Judith Missel Sandler runs her own interior design last fall with Joel just returned from Israel and Lori Laurel Kaplan Swaye and her retired husband business. Judy's eldest daughter graduated from starting her first year of high school. Natalie volun- have been living on board their 36' trawler. Cornell and is with Bloomingdale's. Middle daughter teers and enjoys their new home in Omaha. Ann Christensen is a senior project director, is at Wheaton, having her junior year in Europe. Janet Stevens Read and daughter Jiffy visited your Marketing Services, for the First Natl. Bank of Youngest is in high school. class correspondent and family last winter during Elizabeth Eve Messmer is working on an M.A. in Chicago. a trip down the East Coast. Janet is a psychiatric Barbara Eskilson Weldon was in Europe at the linguistics and teaching at San Jose State. social worker at Concord (MA) Hospital. She and her time of our reunion. Elise Hofheimer Wright continues work on the group of medical professionals presented a paper Ann Dygert Brady is with a public relations firm in boards of Valentine Museum and the Historic Rich- on their team approach at a conference of psy- DC. mond Foundation. She is working on the restoration chiatrists last year in DC. Joanne Williams Hartley is the marketing manager of an 1850 row house and studying 19th century Brenda Bennett Bell's husband Henry is in charge for a condominium complex in suburban Boston. furnishings. of the Office of Merchant Marine Safety at the CG Janet Rowe Duncan has a son entering Dartmouth Jacqueline (Jacqui) Rose Bailey completed her Headquarters in DC. Brenda is delighted to be home this fall. work for a Ph.D. in Nov. and is returning to the East in Bethesda. Mary Clymer Guilbert is working towards a in the spring. Eleanor Souvtue Higginbottom went back to work master's degree in library science at the U. of AZ. Carole Awad Hunt and Jim bought a house in Lake three days a week, teaching French and art history Dorothy Lou Voorhees Burgess has daughters at Placid just in time for the Olympics. Carol is coat No. VA Community College. Eleanor and husband Wellesley and MI. Holyoke. chairing the Spence School Capital Fund Drive as Frank plan to visit Frank's daughter and son in Enid Sivigny Gorvine was appointed Assistant well as running her own decorating business. One son Australia this summer. Director of the e.e. Alumni Assn. last March. She is at Hotchkiss, other will attend Andover in the fall, Your correspondent is still working at the National has two daughters at e.C. daughter is at Spence. Zoo in DC. For the third summer in a row, I'll spend Cynthia Linton Evans has a son at Oberlin. Patricia Grossman Black and Stan's eldest son is two weeks with the Forest Service, building and Patricia Dailey Kniffin is recovering from a serious at U. of PA, one daughter at Dana Hall and the other maintaining pack stock and hiking trails and camp illness and several operations. She sent a long cheer- at Concord Academy. The Blacks will travel to Israel sites in the Shoshone NatL Forest in WY. This is ful letter via Joan Silverherz Brundage to those at and Greece this summer. strenuous but satisfying volunteer work for anyone reunion describing her athletic IS-year-old son and Barbara Jenkinson Greenspan is the business who enjoys the outdoors. her Nat! Merit Finalist daughter who is entering MIT manager of a mining consulting finn in NY. Barbara's It is with sadness that I report the death in Nov. '78 this fall. children are 17, 15 and l]. of Nancy Morton Duffy. I know the class joins me in Rosario Bascon Murillo's eldest son is graduating Suzanne (Sue) Schwartz Gorham had a reunion extending its sympathy to Nancy's family. from med school, her daughter is a medical technolo- with Larry and Beth Rudennan Levine when Howard Correspondent: Mrs. James R. Glassco, Jr. gist, her youngest son is a student at Temple U. and Sue took their son to U. of Chicago. Sue has been (Elizabeth Brainard), 1024 Pine Hill Rd., Mctean, Rosario's new husband has three younger children. selling real estate for the past year and a half but keeps VA 22101 Priscilla Sprague Butler and her husband are in up with her other activities. There was a c.e. dinner Spain this summer. at the Williams Club in NY in early spring with these Our new officers for 1979·]984 are: Sally Lane '56 class members present: Marie Garibaldi, Mar- 54 42 members of the class of 1954 and 24 of Braman, pres.; Enid SI"igny Gorvine, v.p. and re- jorie (Margie) Lewin Ross, Barbara Jenkinson their husbands met in New London for our union chairman; Catherine Pappas McNamara, re- Greenpan, Jill Long Leinbach and Suzanne (Sue) 25th reunion which was so successful that the 31 who cording sec.; Evelyn Connolly Meyers, nominating Schwartz Gorham. stayed over for brunch at Enid Sivigny Gorvine's chairman. Nancy Stewart Roberts enjoys teaching high ho:ne on Sunday are already planning the next re- We extend our sympathy to the family of Claire school Spanish, and took a group of students to Spain umon. On hand were Elizabeth Alcorn Holt'Cand Garber Goodman who died in Apr. 1979. and Morocco in Feb. husband), Judith Brown Cox, Mildred Catledge Correspondent: Mrs. Rollin H. Harper (Dorothy Carla Strassenmeyer Wilde writes, "Our eldest Sampson', Anne Cross Frost, Nena Cunningham Knup), 4027 Westaway Dr., Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 son Rick is nearing the end of his sophomore year at Dahling', Jane Daly Crowley, Gwynn Doyle Hun- e.C. I feel very close to matters at college of course, sa~er', Ann Dygert Brady, Cynthia Fenning Rehm, especially when Rick tells us about his classes with Ehzabeth Friedman Abrams', Barbara Garlick Miss Finney, Mr. Mayhew and Mr. Birdsall." Boyle', Jeananne Gillis Noonan, Marian Good- Sally Smith LaPointe, coach of women's Mary Roth Benioffs husband Dick retired from man Rabinowitz', Susan Greene Richards, Norma farming this spring much to the delight of their athletics at Bowdoin and coach of their Hamady Richards, Ann Heagney Weimer, Lois 56 children. Mary has enjoyed taking courses at Prince- state championship field hockey team, was selected Keating Learned', Helene Kestenman Handleman', to head a developmental program for athletes and ton and hopes to do more of it. Jan King Evans, Dorothy Knup Harper', Sally Lane Linda Cooper Roemer and Bill are leading a busy Braman, Margaret MacVean Finn', Ethel Monzert coaches.

29 life with their four children ranging in age from 21 to Correspondent: Judith: K. Morse, 154 Nor- and is represented in museum and private collections. 4. Their eldest is a senior at Penn State, the next a 62 folk si., Holliston, MA 01746 Two of her card designs have been published by the freshman at Cornell, followed by a 4th grader and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. 4-year-old "blond bombshell." Suzanne (Sue) Ardery Grace reports Mike is due Adele Olmstead Sullivan is teaching French at for a transfer from CA, perhaps to Cleveland in the Eastern College in St. Davids and working on her MARRIED: June Gnutti to William Gre- CG legal office. She hopes to visit CT this summer. Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr. She does quite a bit of writing 64 gonis "!/8{77 Karen Schoepfer Hagerty says Scotty 4 and Nathan and research. Two of Dan and Adele's three children BORN: to Michael and Jehed Diamond Mendie- I Y.iare full of fun and mischief. She's been active m are in college: Penn State and Skidmore. The son, Jesse 6178; to William and Jane Gnutti Gregonis, the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, has taken Sullivans vacation in New London every Aug. and Sarah Elizabeth 7(15178; to Richard Costello and calligraphy, upholstery and racquetball classes and Adele usually catches up with Geneva Grimes Carol McNeary, Zoe Scofield 12/15{78. taught informal wine seminars. Ken will likely be deLabry and Prudence Murphy Parris. Jane Gnutti Gregonis and Bill live in Ellington, transferred back to DC in his job with an electronic Co-correspondents: Mrs. Allison C. Collard CT and are delighted with their baby girl. trade group. (Julia Conner), 15 Central or., Plandome, NY Carol McNeary and husband Richard Costello are Carol Chaykin moved from the suburbs to exciting 11030; Mrs. Robert B. Whitney, Jr. (Helen Cary), lovingly and painstakingly restoring a rare example NY a year ago. She and her 2 cats share an apartment 1736 Fairview Dr. South, Tacoma, WA 98465 of 1950's architecture replete with planters and with a terrific view and close proximity to many at- scalloped screen doors in Gainesville, GA. Richard tractions. Carol works at the CBS data center, and practices as a psychiatric physician assistant. Carol, sent along an article from New York magazine written who last year worked as a fund-raising consultant by Judith Licht Wolsk. In it she mused about her Suzanne Puschel Meskell is happily settled and grants-writer, will find something more to do choices for the International Best-Dressed List, 58 in their new home in the Atlanta area and when Zoe is a little older. having been given a ballot on which to vote. hopes they stay put for a while. Barbara Brachman Fried, pres. of the Glen Ellyn Claudia Corace! Brady writes that the past few Audrey Bateman Georges' son Christopher, of- LWV in spare time plays tennis, teaches bridge at years have been busy with the joys and turmoil of fered early acceptance to C.C., will enter the class the YMCA and runs Rocky 11 and Gail9to violin and babies and moves. Christopher 5, Timothy 3\1 and of 1984. piano lessons. In conjunction with Rick's new book Susan IY.i keep her well-occupied. They've moved Lyndall (Lynn) Renshaw Barrett of Vancouver, on JFK, they all went to Boston last summer wh~re many times, were in the DC area until Jan., and are B.C., is a Health Dept. psychologist and finds time they brunched at the home of Howard and Judith now stationed in San Diego where Tim will command for long-desired piano lessons and tennis. All 3 sons (Judy) Krieger Gardner. a diving and submarine rescue ship. are doing well. Sandra Colby Browne taught linguistics during the Pamela (Pam) Campbell Peterson went to the Charlotte Bancheri Milligan of Atlantic City works '77-'78 academic year at the U. of Windsor, Ont. Her King Tut exhibit in NY with Dorothy (Dorea) Hum- with husband Bert in their interior decorating busi- research paper on phonology was presented in mel and Carol Nostrand Pippin. There they ran into ness. She skied CA, NM and VT this winter. Graham Montreal and published in the 4th forum of the lin- Laura (Tish) Ingraham Samponaro. graduates from high school and Geoffrey 14 will guistic Assn. of Canada and U.S. She is now teaching Anita Shapiro Wilson will retire from CT General enter. assistant in phonetics at the U. of MI where Rich- Insurance Co. to devote full-time to care of her 9- Cassandra Clark Westerman is settled in Welles- mond is a full professor. Sandy continues working on month-old son. She saw Renee Huppert Sosland ley, MA, after Jewell's job change. Margaret (Peggy) her dissertation and trying to keep up with a daughter when Renee visited her parents in Newington, CT. Porter Mitchell served as real estate agent and social 14 and sojt 12 as they follow the current roller skating Renee's children are 8, 6 and 2. Anita also heard from director which helped greatly in making the trans- craze. Carroll Ham Archibald, who is working part-time in ition. Amy and Clark Westerman like living in Red Jill Landefeld received an M.A. in counseling psy- the tax department of an accounting firm. Sox territory and exploring the Boston area. chology through Goddard College's external degree Correspondent: Margaret Silliman Hawley, 98 Joan Michaels Denney spoke about careers for program in Los Angeles. As an exciting career change Coleman Rd., Glastonbury, CT 06033 women at the Southington-Cheshire Branch of the from journalism, she is in private practice domg AAUW. Reichian body work and counseling. She hikes, plays Simone Lasky Liebling came to the Washington racquetball and lies in the sun. area with daughter Suzy who was looking at prep Mary Emeny and husband Hunter Ingalls spent schools. She had time for a stop at American U. to see many challenging months adding an adobe dome to MARRIED: Anne Silliman Brown to Ben- daughter Wendy and a motel stop with Elaine Wolf their Bushland, TX home. Involved with Team Re- 68 jamin Lincoln Mason 8/10/78; Edith Nancy Stein in Silver Spring. sources for Youth (THY) in Amarillo, Mary works Aiden to Richard Stuart Lebov 9/24/78; Susan It is with deep regret that we report the death of with young people who might be in serious trouble Mabrey to Henry T. Gaud 10/14/78. Peggotty Namm Doran on Dec. 9, 1978, after a long without counseling and new goals. Hunter teaches BORN: to Teny and Cheryl Shepley Deane, Elisa illness. We extend to Jim and daughters Beth and two art history courses at West TX State U. 9/73; 10 Bill and Susan Morgan Baker, Marisa Wendy our deepest sympathy. Jim's sister has been Marcia Galati Piesiur still teaches French to W. Whitney 7/13178; to Mike and Amy Bergida Sobel, helping with the girls, whom Jim reports are doing German teenagers. The Piesiurs, including Alex- Brian Jonathan 7/21178; to Roger and Deborah well. He finds them considerable comfort. andra 3Y1 and Svenga 13, came to the U.S. to spend Wallace Feldman, Liza Ann and Julia 8{25/78; to Co-correspondents: Mrs. Harold Stein (Elaine several weeks with her parents in CT last summer. Michael and Carol Harding Kelleher, Norah 10119{ Wolf), 2420 Parallel i«. Silver Spring, M D 20904; Marcia and her husband participated in a 30-hour 78; to Bradley and Suzanne Sanborn O'Cheskey, Mrs. Neil Kendall (Mildred Schmidt man), 13307 EST session in NYC. Terrance Randall 9/27/78; to David and Elissa Chalfont Ave., Fort Washington, MD 20022 Elizabeth Galla Hatem works toward certification Wright Hemond, Matthew Wright 12/9/78; to Paul in ESL After a 2-week sub job in French this winter, and Leigh McWilliams Bates, Douglas Andrew ,I I eagerly returned to my liberation as a full time 2/23/79. Mommy. Lisa 9 is involved in scouting and ballet Amy Bergida Sobel, husband Mike, daughter Eleanor Saunders joined the staff of the while Mark 5 fantasizes galactic wars after his a.m. Jessica 3y'! and 9-month-old Jonathan live in Deer- 6 0 Child and Family Agency of S.E. CT as a Montessori kdg. Sewing nearly all Lisa's and my field, IL where Amy finds greatest pleasure "just parent-child counselor and is working on master of clothes is the pleasure for which I have to squeeze being a Mommy." Previously Amy worked at counseling degree at the U. of Hartford. Tommie's time from my busy schedule. Chicago's Michael Reese Hasp. doing research in career has included being head of Rosemary Hall Correspondent: Mrs. George J. Hatem (Elizabeth genetic endocrinology and did graduate study in School, associate dean at Northfield School and as- Gorra), 51-A Woodside A ve., Roselle Park, NJ 07204 psysiological psychology. sistant director of admissions at c.c. Anne Brown Mason, a research assistant at BU Mari Loverud Winkel is taking accounting courses med school, is studying for a Ph.D. in biochemistry. preparing for a job when her youngest child is in Husband Benjamin is pres. of Eleemos, Inc., a con- school. She earned an M.A. in art and still keeps up 66 Leslie White, reporter for the Meriden sulting firm for non-profit organizations. with her drawing. Record-Journal, received the Human- Jill Silverman Cossman and husband David, a Merry Lee Corwin writes, "After 9 years in the itarian of the Year Award from the Unitarian-Uni- vascular surgeon, recently moved from Beverly Philippines, with temporary duty in Vietnam, Hong versalist Church in November. Hills to a big old house in Hancock Park. Jill, the Kong, and Taiwan, I left the Foreign Service and re- Ann Langdon has 2 daughters, Alison 7 and mother of Josh 9, Jimmy 7 and Joanna 3Y.i, looks turned with my son to HI. Went to work for the East- Elizabeth 2Y.i, and has been living in DC since Drew ahead to entering law school in Aug. West Center where I'm a program officer putting on was appointed Asst. Attorney General for the Civil Kathryn Bard Lippman recently returned from 6 international meetings on research topics of mutual Rights Div. Ann has been working as an artist for 4 months of archaeological field work in N. Africa. interest to East and West. Was divorced, bought a years, exhibiting in group shows and participating in Working in N.E. Algeria and Egypt, she excavated condominium and started running. Took sabbatical CAA and WCA conferences in DC. She says she owes lithic artifacts, found over a million snail shells in a leave last year at WGBH in Boston. Am on the Board nearly all her success to the Washington Women's 4 x 2 m trench, and uncovered a burial site containing of Directors of the Honolulu Symphony Guild and Arts Center. the skeleton of a 6-8 year old child. For three months the Honolulu Marathon Assn., editing the latter's Another artist, Lorraine (Lori) Schechter, has she lived in a small mud-brick house without elec- newsletter. Finished last Dec.ts Honolulu marathon. ~ been teaching painting and drawing with the Water- tricity or plumbing. Currently Kathryn teaches a Correspondent: Mrs. Ralph E. Sloan (Jean Chap- town, CT, CET A Fine Arts Project. She recently course in ancient Egyptian art and architecture at pell), 14 Longview Dr.. Simsbury, CT 06070 completed a mural for the Watertown High School U. of Toronto where she is working on her Ph.D.

30 Josephine Martin reached the j-year mark of husband Walter, her children, house and yard and in the second recorded home birth following the birth running her own advertising agency, Peppy Martin church work. She lives in Columbia, Sc. of an earlier child by Caesarean section. & Associates, in Louisville. She manages a staff of 4 Susan Sharkey Hortman represented Conn at the Deborah Whitlock Madden's daughter was born and works for retailers, industrial clients and pro- inauguration of the new pres. of Tusculum College in at home also but not by plan. Her husband Pat is asst. fessional associations. Peppy, the only woman on Greenville, TN 2/8/79. Sue lives in Knoxville with v.p. with First Bank in New Haven. the State Chamber of Commerce Board, lives 20 miles husband Tom who works at Oak Ridge Natl. Lab. Adrienne Hollander, living in VA, is an ad- up the Ohio River from Louisville in a country church Tom's job-related conventions have enabled the ministrative secy. in the Commonwealth's At- she converted into a residence. Her water system Hoffmans to travel coast to coast. Sue finds the slower torney's office. catches rainwater off the roof. pace of southern living suits her family, but keeps Sara Busch travelled to the Far East, including Edith Aiden Lebov, who received an M.s. degree busy with Red Cross work, is a den leader chauffers the People's Republic of China, this spring. She is from So. CT State College, is a counselor in the Dave 9 and Joe 6 to piano lessons and sports ac- househunting in the SF area. Guilford public school system. Her husband Richard tivities. Nancy Payne Alexander and husband Charles is office mgr. of the Supreme Tailor Co. Cheryl Shepley Deane takes Elisa 5 to endless live on the coast of ME with their two girls. Nancy Ellen Leader Pike, husband Carl, Jill 5 and Billy lessons, plays tennis and sings and dances in musicals is active in the local performing arts center and 2 are spending this year in Palo Alto while Carl takes with the Chatham Community Players. Chery began Charles is an internist. his sabbatical at the Carnegie Inst. at Stanford. In serious dance training in '73 when her interest, Dagny Hultgreen works as a city planner in the Aug. the Pikes return to Lancaster and Ellen resumes abandoned since age 12, was re-kindled. For 3 years, Stamford, CT, mayor's office. She keeps in touch teaching Asian and African history at a private high she commuted two hours daily, 7 days a week to the with Dianne Edson Butt. school. Last summer Ellen and Carl saw David and Saratoga Ballet Co., doubling as wardrobe mistress. Evelyn Cooper Sitton, husband and 4~-year-old Susan Gehrig Kranz of Salt Lake City who were Teny's Army stint moved the family again, to Fort son moved to DC where Lynne is selling her art work visiting Berkeley. In the fall the Pikes visited Keith Monmouth, NJ, and Chery joined the Princeton and doing free-lance advertising. and Ann Fertig Tiemann in Redwood Valley, CA. Ballet Co. They live in Morristown and spend many Rita Miller is first in her class in her final year at Polly Leonard Keener keeps very busy with her enjoyable hours with Warren and Tamah Nachtman Loyola law school in LA and an editor of the law re- small toy co. and with freelance art work, doing il- Wiegand of NYC. view. She'll begin practicing next year. Evelyn Marienberg lives in LA and writes for the lustrations, business logos and tradeshow displays. Correspondent: Mrs. Ross 1. Mannino (Barbara She'll be teaching cartooning to children and soft di Trolio), 4 Old SmalleylOwn Rd., Warren, NJ 07060 TV show Password. Leslie Fenn graduated from the Medical College sculpture and cartooning to adults in the continuing of VA in Richmond. She'll do a medical internship at education program at Akron U. Polly completed some Harvard's Mt. Auburn Hosp. in Cambridge. miniature portraits, did modeling, and a lot of den MARRIED: Anne Sargent to Frederick Correspondent: Mrs. Thomas J. Neff (Susan mothering to her 10 cub scouts. Son Teddy is 8. Walker II {78. Paull), 38 Dairy Rd.. Greenwich. CT06830 Husband Bob is a stockbroker. 69 BORN: to Philip and Alice Reid Abbott a daughter Suzanne Sanborn O'Chesky is a part-time nursing 5/28/79; to Patrick and Deborah Whitlock Madden, assistant and research associate in immunology at Elizabeth Hale 2/13/79; to David and Susan Ninde UCLA. Husband Brad is production shift supervisor Tresemer, Emma Ward 2/2/79; to James and Anne MARRIED: Carol McCoy to Dr. Lanny at Lever Bros. in LA. As Suzanne works A.M.'s and Tenenbaum Toohey, David Edward 6/ 12/78; to Tom 70 Gordon Fosler 11/75. Brad works P.M.'s, they share equally in the care of and Susan Paull Neff, Mark Gregory, 1/24/78. BORN: to Michael and Cynthia Howard Harvell, son Terrance, "a nice arrangement all the way Our 10th reunion was a smashing success! Special Richard Kenefick 10/6/78; to Mark and Myrna round." thanks to reunion chairman Ellen Achin Myers for Chandler Goldstein, Samantha Anne 8/19/78; to Margaret Frost Crumb, who lives in Bethel, CT, a superb weekend which included a Sat. evening Jon and Nancy Reihl Leckerling, Peter Blair 8/13178; visited with Suzie last summer. Markie has two steamboat ride down the Mystic River; to Kathleen 10 Edwin and Lynn Robinson Taff, Allison Lynn children and teaches junior high French and history. (Kathy) Buckley Griffis and family for their gracious 10/13/78; to Nancy Gilbert and Stephen Brenner, Dianne Sanborn graduated from Newton-Wel- hospitality at the Sat. afternoon family picnic held at Jordan Gilbert-Brenner 2/9178. lesley Hasp. School of Nursing in June. She was first their lovely home in Lyme; and to Evelyn (Lynne) Mary (Molly) Hall Prokop reports the Coast Guard in her class and is class sec. Cooper Sitton who singlehandedly produced an "un- moved her and husband Paul to southern CA where Susan Mabrey Gaud and husband Henry live in putdownable" class biography. For those who did they play tennis, swim and bike. Emily loves 1st Evanston and are research chemists at Kraft, Inc. not obtain this professionally bound biography at grade and Robbie is exploring his new home. Molly Pricilla Gray Platt from Winterport, ME, Carolyn reunion, they may be ordered from Kathy Griffis, busies herself with Brownies and Wives Club ac- Downes Selmecki from Niantic, CT, and Kay Lane Grassy Hill Rd., Lyme, CT 06371 for $2 each. tivities. She hears from Susan Lee and Susan Leaird from Belmont, MA attended Susan's wedding. New class officers elected at the picnic on Sat. are: (Heather) Clash on occasion. Dorinne Lee Mason re-entered the work force Ellen Lougee Simmons, pres.; Ellen Achin Myers, Nancy Reihl Leckerling retired temporarily from with a half-time job in the Village Library in Farm- vice-pres.: Susan Paull Neff, secy.; Kathy Buckley leaching to care for son Peter and to landscape their ington, CT, Dori is pres. of the Episcopal Church Griffis, treas.: Barbara Plte , class agent. ISO-year-old home in Madison. She is glad to be Women of her parish, and as c.c. Admissions Aide back in CT and looks forward to visiting the Conn for the Hartford area, she has hosted a pre-freshman Attending reunion were: Ellen Achin Myers, campus for the first time since graduation. Nancy picnic for 4 years. Dori's husband Nick has a pilot's Ellen Arnoff Kent, Arete Benner McSherry, Nina reports Barbara Green has a doctorate from Purdue instrument rating and owns 1/3 of a plane, Even son Berman Schafer, Sally Bishop Vestewig, Lorraine and is Dean of Students at Whittier College in CA, Jeff 7 enjoys flying the plane once in a while. Bitner Gilden, Anne Bonniol Pringle, Julia Boone, near classmates Nancy Ferretti and Sarah (Sally) Janet Bouchard Pietsch, Elizabeth Brereton Smith, Deborah Wallace Feldman is working on an M.A. Falsey. Jeanne Brooks Ilrooks-Gunn, Nancy Brush Edwards, at Harvard's school of education. The student life is Pamela Brooks Perraud is back in the U.S., living Kathy Buckley Griffis, Carol Bunevich, Wendy in Darien with husband Jean and son Mark Alex- a .change after 8 years of publishing experience with Burns Tilghman, Elizabeth Butkus, Jeanne Caldwell Ginn and Co. and two years of free-lance editing. ander. Raudenbush, Susan Cannon Terwilliger, Paula Debbie says care of Nina 3, the e-monm-old twins, Nancy Gilbert Brenner was practicing law until Cisco verde, Lynne Cooper Sitton, Margaret Croft and two golden retrievers "precludes much indul- the birth of son Jordan and plans to look for part-time Enichen, Nancy Daniel Johnson, Laura Davenport gent time." work. Petcavage, Judith deGroff Schoonmaker, Athena Melva E. Lowe-Goodin is married to Orville K. Carol McCoy Foster received an M.S. in psych Demos Economou, Suzette deVogelaere, Kathleen GOOdin, the vice minister of Finance in Panama. from Rutgers and is working on a Ph.D. Carol is a Diller Milch, Leslie Fenn, Penelope Goslin, Faye Melva teaches English at the Nan. U. of Panama and social science instructor at Misericordia Hosp. Green Steacy, Marjorie Holland Sackett, Jane the Canal Zone, branch of FL State U. In Feb. Melva School of Nursing in the Bronx. Hooper LaCour, Sylvia Icken Adelberg, Margaret and son Kwamena 7 visited Elizabeth (Betsy) Markin Kaempfer Harjes, Irene Kolanko Shedlosky, Shula Myrna Chandler Goldstein left her administrative Marcu and family in Pittsburgh. Kreiger, Ruth Kunstadt Culp, Ja~ice Lane, Jane job when her second child was born. Older child Candace Mayeron graduated cum laude from Leary Schnitzer, Mary Hannah Leavitt, Ellen Lougee Brett will be 5 in June. Husband Mark is with the MIT Whittier College law school and is awaiting Bar Simmons, Linda Main Lane, Linda McCoy Burnett, Medical Dept. and is a Harvard med school in- exam results. She plays in natl. backgammon com- Joan Mirandy, Susan Ninde Tresemer, Joanne structor at Children's Hospital. They just bought petitions Osano Sasaki, Susan Paull Neff, Stephanie Phillips, their first home in Sudbury. Karen Blickwede Knowlton tutors physically Carol Harding Kelleher, husband Michael, Molly Judith Rapp, Ellen Robinson Epstein, Sara Rowe 4 and 6-month-old Norah live in DC where they built Heckscher, Sheila Ryan Wilkin~on, Susan Schar- handicapped children. She recently became a Mor- mon and does volunteer social work for the church. an addition to accommodate their expanding family. lotte Walton, Margaret Schmidt Brady, Susan A wood-burning stove is highlight of the kitchen. Schwab Turi Bettina Scott Brogadir, Nancy Oskow- Karen is case worker with foster families housing Susan Morgan Baker opted for full-time mother- Schoenbrod, 'MOlly Shannon Osbor~e, Sharon Smith Indian children during the school year. They enjoy hood since Marisa's birth. Though quite an adjust- Broughton, Betsey M. Stone, Harriet Tatman Gay- their first home near LA. Cynthia Howard Harvell abandoned her parl- ~ent after working so many years, Sue finds mother- nor Elizabeth Tobin Mueller, Sandra Turner mg rewarding but housework DULL She and hus- Bodmer-Turner, Marilyn Weast Rorick, Regina time job while doing overtime diaper detail; still takes some time out for tennis, jogging and com- band Bill, a trial lawyer, live in Wellesley. Wolpert Bower-65 of us in all. All of you not able mittee work. Michael enjoys law practice and is to attend were greatly missed. Mary-Elizabeth Walker Jackson is a homemaker teaching a business law course. Cyn reports on Who divides her time among responsibilities for Susan Ninde Tresemer's new baby, born at home,

31 Rachel Sherbourne Cooney working three days a Beverly Alfano Ahrensdorf and Lee live outside Elizabeth L. Green, after six: years in retailing at week at a mental health center in Concord, MA; Philadelphia. Bev teaches in a middle school; Lee is a major dept. store, changed to a marketing job with Mary KeiJ now a loan executive from Citibank to a assistant treasurer of the West Co. Southwestern Bell Tel. Co. non-profit organization which attracts professional Beth Alpert completes a master's in theological Dorothy Hatch Seiter, since the birth of her daugh- people to serve on boards of non-profit agencies; studies in June at Harvard Divinity School. She is ter Meg, is on leave of absence from supervising and Leslie Dahn Sundberg who recently visited the interested in biblical archeology and spent weeks teaching at the Landmark School for learning dis- Harvens but lives in Chicago with husband Ed and last summer as staff illustrator for Tel Aviv U's ex- abled students. children Lisa and Ed; Georgia Spiro Schweitzer cavation at Lachish. Nancy Hewes Tommaso teaches English com- working full time; and Valerie Zucker Holt and hus- Trisha Ashton Cohan is back in law school and position at Triton Community College, River Grove, band Bif back on the East coast, stationed on Gover- plans to practice with her husband after she passes IL. Husband Carl is a cardiology fellow at North- nor's Island with the Coast Guard. the Bar. western. Correspondent: Nancy Pierce Morgan. 202 West Claudia Aufhauser, after specializing in com- Barbara Hoffman Keiser and husband Bob are Church St .. Farmville, NC 27828 puter litigation for 5 years in a Boston law firm, back in New England in Brookfield, CT after seven joined her family's firm in NY, Aufhauser Bros. moves. Barb is busy working on their home and raising Corp., to learn sales and marketing in the welding son Jeffrey. MARRIED: Beverly Alfano to Lee Ahrens- industry. Lynne Holzapfel Sze and husband Dan, a diplomat, 72 dorf 10/8/78; Carolyn Anderson to Elizabeth Otto is enrolled in a master's program now live in Mexico City after having lived in Havana, Gerald Romelczyk 9{16j78; Lynn Goney to Lee A. in botany at Rutgers. Cuba, for 18 mos. Westenberg 8{78; Lynne Holzapfel to Daniel Shao- Alice Rogoff finished an MBA from Harvard Laura Isenberg is a social worker with homebound Huang Sze 11/9/71; Ruth Tsal to Edmund Rupp- 6/18 and is with the Office of Management and elderly in Jamaica Pia-in, MA. mann 5/28/71; Patricia Strong to Jonathon Ensign Budget in the Carter administration. Barbara Johnson Hamilton, an attorney, is on the 3/11j78 (Pat retains her maiden name); Deborah Margo Wittland Reynolds traveled in Turkey in staff of the SC attorney general's office where she Pierson to Richard Bailowitz in '14; Barbara Sund- '17 with Sally Taylor and Betty Thomson. She is specializes in labor law in the special litigation div. heimer to Ir1 Extein 6{2{14. director of public relations and coordinator of Husband Stuart is chief pediatric resident of Rich- BORN: to Ed and Hedda Ashkenas Mateh, Simeon membership at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. Margo land Memorial Hospital in Columbia. They have a Eric 1{19/79; to Darvy and Patricia (Trisha) Ashton is on the editorial advisory board of Horticulture two-year-old daughter, Rhia Olivia. Cohan, Tegan Ashton 1/24/71; to Greg and Barbara Magazine and served as a judge at the last two Boston Maureen Jones is an instructor in sociology at (Bonnie) Baker Cowan, Fletcher Andrews 9/15/78; flower shows. Robeson Technical Inst. In Dumberton, NC. to Howie and Sandi Bauman Edelstein, Daniel Seth Joanne Kahn Malmon received her MSW in 1975 4/2j78; to Mr. Liguori and Victoria Davis Liguori, and worked two years as a management analyst for Lisa 12/71; to Virginia Oematatis and husband the government before Brian was born. Joanne is John Moore, Stephanie Dematatis Moore 12/13/71; OCTOBER taking courses at the DC Inst. for Psychoanalysis. 10 John and Deborah Eliason Rollins, Daniel 1/78; Mary Ellen Kelley Gierhart works in the SF finan- 10 David and Dorothy Hatch Seiter, Margaret Joan cial district as an insurance agent with CT Mutual 10/4/18; to Stuart and Joanne Kahn Malmon, Life. She made the Million Dollar Round Table in her Brian Kahn 8/21{17; to Michael and Holli Helpem first year. Levy, Nicole 11/8/78; to David and Susan Lelbacher Patricia Kreger is a TV news producer at WBZ-TV Ward, Sarah Elizabeth 5{15/78; to Frederick and in Boston. Robin Yokelson Johnson, Samantha 1/78; to Charles Nancy Kyle, after 3~ years in Hong Kong, is back and Ann Taylor Brown, Nancy Beresford 12/4{16 in London managing portfolio investments. and Susan Mendenha1l4fl9{18; to John and Cathy Ruth Tsai Rupprnann works as a financial analyst Rudolph Breish, John W. III 12/4/71; to John and in the corporate controller's dept. of the Chase Man- Margaret (Maggie) Mcintosh Theroux, Jessica hattan Bank in NYC. She will complete her MBA in 9/29/78; to Kenneth and Nancy Ziegler von der Par- finance from NYU in June. Husband Ed is a senior ten, Kate 8/3{18; to Preston and Nancy Marshall staff officer and district comptroller for Citibank. Athey, Clifford 10/18 and Margaret 2/77; to Irl and Barbara Sundheimer Extein, Melissa Judith Carolyn (Cricket) Zoephel Lockhart and family 1/23/79; to Larry and Ruth Ritter Ladd, twins, live in their own "mews" house in the Knightsbridge- Chelsea district of London. Jim is with the treasury Stacey and Robin 11/4/78; to Eric Keirn and Pamela dept. of Gulf Oil. McKittrick, a son Cody 11/5/1S. Bonnie Baker Cowan lives on Key Biscayne, where Nancy Marshall Athey and Preston moved to she is busy raising two sons and doing volunteer work. Baltimore with their two children after Preston's Husband Greg works with Banker's Trust InternatL graduation from Stanford business school. He is with T. Rowe Price. in Miami. Sandi Bauman Edelstein, since the birth of Daniel, Linda Mosse Baer works at the MA attorney gen- is on leave of absence from her job as an assistant eral's office, consumer protective div., while finishing branch manager for Chemical Bank in NYC. Elizabeth (Cindy) Leahy is credit officer for the her last year in law school. Husband Lewis is an Patricia Biggins, after working as a financial Wells Fargo Bank. estate planning attorney for the federal govt. in planner for Mystic Seaport, is now in Columbia's Barbara Sundheimer Exteln received M. Arch. Boston. MBA program. from Yale in '16. Barb worked on a passive solar Lillah McCarthy is an actress in LA and has been Carol Blake Boyd and husband Peter live in energy project at the A.LA. Research Corp. until on The Paper Chase, The Incredible Hulk and Barn- Syracuse, where Carol is doing research for a the birth of Melissa. Irl is doing psychiatric research aby Jones. federal Burn Study Project and Peter is in his last at the Nat!' Inst. of Mental Health. They live in Sally (Sam) McLaughlin Olivier teaches in a Thea- two years as a pathology resident. Bethesda. tre Arts Program at Nazareth College. Husband Jack Nancy Burne" is an administrative assistant for Karen DuBrul graduated from law school and is a hospital administrator at Highland. Both enjoy Elderhostel in the Boston area. passed the Bar. She works on the in-house legal staff restoring their 1900's house. June Clymer is the librarian at the Institute of at Smith. Barney, Harris Upham & Co. on Wall St. Kathleen McGrath writes from Concord MA American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France. Penelope (Penny) Eisenhart completed her MAT where she is a landscape gardener for the Dept. of Kathleen Cooper Vadala and husband Chris in day care and preschool administration in early Natural Resources and works for the public library. (M.A. '13) live in the DC area where Kathy is in the childhood education. She co-directs and teaches at Pamela (Pam) Wilsey moved to SF where she is DMA program in piano at the U. of MD. She was in the day care center which she proposed and opened with NBC as a producer/writer for environmental LA when Chris' group (The Chuck Mangione Band) in 1916. health and science stories. ' taped a Johnny Carson Show. Debbie Eliason Rollins teaches two courses at the Susan Walker Kowen practices law in Honolulu Jinny Dematatis and husband John Moore live in U. of NC at Chapel Hill and is busy raising son Daniel. with Carlsmith, Carlsmith, Wickman & Case. the Denver area where Jinny is practicing law part- Adriane Gaffuri works at Educational Testing Jo~n Myers ~orks for FL Power & Light Co. while time and John is a pediatrics resident. Service in Princeton, doing child development re- Bev IS the assistant county attorney and children, Susan Donaldson, after five years in NYC, two search while trying to finish writing her dissertation Rebecca and "Andy, attend Montessori school. spent as an editor/reporter for a financial magazine in psychology at Princeton U. Maggie Mcintosh Theroux is on maternity leave and freelancing, went "corporate." A marketing JoAnn Giordano, after teaching at Hopkins from IBM after five years as a D.P. marketing repre- consultant and employee benefits strategist for Grammar/Day Prospect Hill from 1973-75, has been sentative. Equitable Life, she was recently transferred to LA. living in DC and working in government related Deborah Pierson Bailowitz received an M.Ed. Norma Drab Walrath has taught 10th and 11th positions. from BU in '74. She teaches bilingual second grade grade English and journalism for 1 years at Ledyard Lynn Gorsey westenberg completed her MLS at in Nogales, AZ. Husband Richard is a lepidopterist. H.S. She is an editor of A Leiter Among Friends, a the U. of MD and is an editor at the American Psy- Debbie enjoys bicultural living but misses the East. poetry magazine, and a group which gives monthly chological Assn. Husband Lee is the director of Barbara Vosburgh Omohundro and Dan moved to poetry readings. publications for a trade assn. in DC. Fairfield, CT where Dan has a private practice in

32 ophthalmology. Barb is the office's business man- Frechette to John J. Gula Jr. 7/31/76; Sharon teacher' at Head Start in New London before buying ager. (Sherry) Joyce to John Tabechnick 8f78; Theo- and managing an apt. building. She still has time to Ann Lopatto spent 1972-73 as a free-lance jour- dore (Ted) Romanow to Rebecca Fine 10{77; Terry do some free-lance photography. nalist in India and Bangladesh on a Watson Fellow- Sanderson to Roger (Whit) Smith 12/30/77. Michael Cassatly is in his third year at Fairleigh ship. She received a J.D. from Harvard in '76 and was BORN: to Robert A. Cutler and wife, Jordan David, Dickinson U. dental school. He received a scholar- admitted to the NY Bar. Since 9/76 Ann has been 12/12f78. ship from the Public Health Service and will serve with Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher in NYC. She is at work Jeffrey Elkin is v.p. of New London Tape Dis- with it for two years after graduation in 1980. on a novel after spending last Aug. at the Bread Loaf tributors in Niantic while Mary Yoshimura Elkin is Jeffrey Cohen is in his third year at U. Chicago Writers Conference in VT. assistant manager of Data Processing at the Savings med school and Sally Farwell Cohen is doing research Ann Taylor Brown is busy with her new house, her Bank of New London. at the Rehabilitation Inst. of Chicago on spinal cord two girls, LWV, and her church in Endwell, NY while Caroline Brunjes is a technical illustrator in injuries . husband Charlie is with IBM. northern CA. . Prudence P. Cheney, studying for a B.s. in nursing, Robin Yokelson Johnson enjoys Atlanta life with Rebecca C10e lives in Brooklyn and does plant has been working for the visiting nurse service of daughter Samantha while Frederick is an attorney maintenance for offices and stores in Manhattan. Newport, RI. at Southern Bell T & T. Gloria Amodeo is completing her M.A. in clinical Charles Fitzhugh is a teacher's aide at a residential Barbara McLean Ward received an M.A. in psych. at the U. of Hartford while working part time special education school in New Marlborough, MA American studies from BU in 1975 and is working on for Meals on Wheels. and plays piano at a church. her Ph.D. Barb and husband Gerry work at Yale's Lisa Boodman is on the support staff of B.V. Urban David Alden is in his 2nd year in the rotational Art Gallery. They put together a special exhibit, Affairs Dept. where she assisted in its successful bid management training program at Ford in Phil- Silver in American Life, which will travel to 12 other for union representation. She serves as a district adelphia. museums in three years after opening in Pittsburgh. union rep. and takes courses in labor law and rela- Barbara Anderson Mongold is working for a law Jennifer Ward Angyal received an M.S. in 10010gy tions. Her article on labor organizing appeared in firm and living in SI. Petersburg, FL where husband from Duke in '77. She is a film strip coordinator at the Fall 1978 issue of Politics and Education Jim is stationed at the Coa st Guard Group. the Carolina Biological Supply Co. while husband Elizabeth Dolliver Eldon is a research associate in Robert (Bob) Axelrod is in his last year at BU law Andy is an assistant prof. of English at Elon College. the Dept. of Biology at IN U., while husband Bill is school and plans to return to CT after graduation in They enjoy their house and two acres of earth in the completing his M.A. in German. He will teach this May. country. summer in Bonn. Susan Dudding Evans lives in Pensacola, FL where Susan Leibacher Ward is a 4th year Ph.D. student John Emerman is bartending in Cleveland her husband Jim attends flight school. She works at in art history at Brown. She divides her time between David Coleman, completing an M.S. in experi- an insurance company until they move to Cape Cod daughter Sarah and teaching a freshman seminar. mental psych. at San Jose State U., works for a where Jim will be a helicopter pilot for the Coast Husband David is with Trinity Square Theatre. counseling center at Stanford. Guard. Elizabeth (Betsy) Riggs has her M.S. in elementary Sarah Cahoon is a sales rep. with IBM in Phoenix. Louise (Sissy) Gardner is a casualty broker for ed. from U. of Chicago. She runs a therapeutic Byrle Bombero Lauriat, who received an M.A. in industrial/commercial accounts for a Chicago firm. nursery school in Brunswick, ME for the Community religious ed. from Gordon-Conwell Theological She writes that Randy Whitney left NYC and joined Mental Health Center. Seminary last May, lives in Newport, RI where her the Chicago office of Champion Papers. Patricia Strong was admitted to the CT Bar in husband David is stationed with the Navy. Richard (Rick) Allen is finishing at U. Miami law 1O{77. She is with the CT Supreme Court while Shelley L. Conger serves as administrative di- school and will join a Dallas firm in June. husband Jonathon Ensign has a private practice. rector of a modern dance company, Murray Spalding Anthony L. Carr, an asst. management analyst They bought a house in Meriden. Dance Theatre, in DC. for the MA Housing Finance Agency, lives in West Nancy Lane teaches a pre-school class of the hear- Nina M. George is teaching asst. at Georgetown Newton ing impaired in Concord, MA. U. and is working on her Ph.D. in philosophy. Last Faith E. Blersch is pursuing an M.S. at the U. of Nancy Newman works as an accountant for year she was a research asst. in the Middle East, do- OK, focusing her research on plant-insect relation- Deloitte Haskins Sells while finishing an MBA at ing writing and photography. ships. NYU. Earl Holman is completing his first year at Cornell Dave DiPrete hitched out 10 OR last fall from Paula Wolf completed graduate work for teaching business school. Boston and plans to travel throughout the south credentials and taught grade kdg. for 3 years. She's Leroy B. Jones Jr. works at HEW in the Civil before settling in Bellingham, WA. doing an M.A. in education from Whittier College Rights Div. in DC and is working on a grad degree at Katherine Brown is a real estate broker on Beacon and teaches in a church school. Among her new in- George Washington U. Hill, selling condominiums, co-ops and buildings. terests are tole painting and interior design. Betty Davis Strong became admin. asst. to the Nadine Olivia Earl is studying voice and perform- Co-correspandems. Mrs. Peter Boyd (Carol director of state day care centers in New London ing in NYC. Blake), 724 Dewitt St.. Syracuse, NY 13203; Mrs. County. Sharon (Sherry) Joyce Tabechnick is finishing Lynn Black Reed, Northfield-Mount Hermon School, Craig T. Barth is involved in teaching, research law school at NYU. She and her husband will move Mount Hermon, MA 01354 and clinical work as a doctoral candidate in speech to Summit, NJ in July where John will start a resi- and hearing at CUNY grad center. dency in family practice. John (Jack) Clarkson is in his last year at UConn Robert Hoffman is a correspondent for two law school where he is a teaching asst. Susan is magazines in Philadelphia and videotapes horse 74 MARRIED: Marcia Anne Testa to Donald graphic design instructor at Central CT St~te College. auctions in the South. In addition, he is an apprentice Craig Simonson 4{21/79. Katherine Ballis attends U. Penn Medical School script supervisor on commercials and films in NYC. BORN: to John and Patricia Whitehead Visi, Cory and has a special interest in radiology. James (Jim) Briggs is a sales rep. for Lawyers Co- Eva Mae Jones is a student at Capital U. law S{20f78; to Richard and Barbara Meichner Horton, op Publishing Co. in northeastern PA. Nicholas King 5{4f79. school, Columbus, OH. , . Paula Drain Briggs is completing an internship in June-Ann Greeley is completing her Ph.D. 10 Karen Gordon was appointed health educator for play therapy in Allentown, PA. She expects to re- medieval studies at UConn and lives with her three the University Health Services at Princeton U. and is ceive her M.A. in expressive therapies from Lesley developing a health education center there. She cats. College, Cambridge, MA in May. _. Wendy Golart Wachter and John moved to I?C has published more than a dozen articles on health James Friedman is a resident director at ABC care. after a vacation last summer in France and Spain. House in Madison, CT, a program that brings dis- Marcia Testa received master's degrees in public She is a computer programmer at the Federal Re- advantaged high school students to a high quality health and biometry from Yale, where she is doctoral serve Board and often hears from Carol Weller Cline school. He is completing his certification in school candidate in biometry. who is married, has a son and lives in NJ psychology at So. CT State College. Co-correspondents: Julia Bruning-Johns. 1301 Meghan Ellenberger and Jonathan Bricklin Marc Gottesdiener is managing a commercial Duncan Ave .. Cincinnati, OH 45208 (A-F); Carol A. moved to NYC where Jonathan, a philosophy real estate firm in Hartford and rehabilitating an Filice, 22 Benedict Ave., Eastchester, NY 10709 major, is acting and Meghan, a theater major, is 1895 brick building near the Capitol. While vaca- (G-O); Margaret Hamilton Turkevich, 537 San writing a philosophical novel. tioning in Bermuda, he ran into Dan Tucker '75. Vicente, Apt. 304, Santa Monica, CA 90402 (P-Z) Nancy Frechette Gula was director and head Carol Bowman Grammar is completing an M.S. in learning disorders at the U. of Rochester. She is a learning specialist with a private educational clinic. Co-correspondents: Carol &wman Grammar, 76 MARRIED: John Alderman to Nancy CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Box 178. R.D. #2, Geneva, NY 14456; Rosemary Sisitzky 9/9/78; Barbara Anderson to T. Kelly, 30 High SI. 112, Woodbury, NJ 08096 James R. Mongold 10/2/76; Sarah S. Burchenal to Your Class Notes Editor is: Bruce C. Parmenter '77, 9/9/78; Jane Bystry to Lt. Mrs. Huber Clark (Marion Vibert '24) Calvin E. Weyers 10/21/78; John (Jack) Clarkson Co-correspondents: Laurie Heiss, 25 to Susan Vial 6/4{77; Elizabeth Dolliver to William Box 578, East Main Street 78 Shell Ave., Milford. CT 06460 (A-K); (Bill) Eldon 8/78; Paula Drain to Jim Briggs 9/9/78; Stockbridge, MA 01262 Jane Kappell, 305 E. 86/h SI., New York, NY 10028 Jeffrey P. Elkin to Mary Yoshimura 11/27/76; (L-Z) Sally Farwell to Jeffrey Cohan 9/24/78; Nancy

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Alumni giving has topped one million dollars for the first time! In 1978-79, Connecticut College alumni gave $1,000,963, nearly doubling last year's figure. To all of you, thank you.

Angel Gabriel weathervane reprinted from The Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art.